Re: RedHat Linux 7 (Guinness) Won't Boot...Help

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:06:19AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> andrew_phillips@bigpond.com said:
> > I am having trouble booting linux. I have installed it several times
> > but linux won't boot after the first restart. It seems that Lilo won't
> > even load. When it starts to load the MBR the compter just sits with a
> > undeline curser constantly flashing in the top left hand corner. I
> > also have the same problem with RedHat 6.2 but when the computer
> > starts to display Lilo.... it only says Li_ with the curser flashing.
> > I haven't tried any other versions of linux. btw Linux seems to
> > install fine. 
> 
> 
> I forgot to mention, if you make a boot disk during installation, you can use 
> that to boot.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
This is undoubtably a problem with your lilo.conf or maybe the location
of the /boot partition. run a lilo -v -v to see if you get and errors
that a file can't be found or some other problem. If you have a boot disk
you produced and the machine will boo that way. run the dos command :
fdisk /mbr
then reboot the linux using the boot disk and then run: lilo -v -v
If that works try to reboot using lilo.
In you 6.2 case it looks as if the /boot is beyond cylinder 1024. LI-
means the secondary boot loader could not be found.
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