Subject: Re: Dell CPx and LILO on hard drive
From: Alexander Clouter (alexander.clouter@ic.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 10:39:41 GMT+1
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:56:27 -0600, Michael White <qa1402@ftw.mot.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running RedHat 7.0 on a Dell CPx with a 12 GB hard drive. I also
> have
> a Windows NT partition. Everything works fine except for LILO. I've
> installed LILO several times as described at
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html
>
> Whenever I select to boot to Linux, all I see is "LI", then the machine
> locks up. On the other hand, booting from floppy works just fine.
>
> I had the exact same problem under RedHat 6.2.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. If possible, copy me via email.
>
you *did* edit your /etc/lilo.conf file, you also did type (as root)
"lilo"? if not then things get messy. If you did do this did lilo
complain about any errors?
Alex
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