hang on boot - more info

["Otis Gospodnetic" <otis POPULUS net>]

Hello,

first - thanks a lot to people who mailed and offered suggestions and help!

now, it looks like I sort of figured out why my Linux hang on the very
beginning of the boot. (but I have NOT managed to fix the problem yet :()

        It hung, so I booted with the boot floppy, got in as 'rescue' and
        poked around the file system.
        First, like you said the /dev stuff is not being mounted, so when I
        got in I first had to:
                mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt
        Then I tried what you said (making sure there is lilo.conf, with the
        correct boot=/dev/hdb6 line in it (in my case hdb6 is the /
        partition.  It is on my second drive, Linux native, and marked as
        Bootable) and I also made sure there is /boot directory present
        (it wasn't there, so I symlinked the one from /mnt )
        After that I tried running lilo:
                /mnt/sbin/lilo  (or /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf)
        That gave me some "open: /dev/hdb6 no such .. something"
        So I looked in /dev and realized there are no partitions listed
        there!  So I symlinked:
                ln -s /mnt/dev/hdb6 /dev/hdb6
        Then I run lilo again, and this time is said this:
                Warning: /dev/hdb6 not on the first drive
                Adding dos *
                Adding linux
        So I said great, that's it, this part must have somehow been skipped
        and now things will work.
        So I tried to reboot and guess what, it hung again the same way.

At this point I'm not sure what else I can do to make things not hang, mount
automatically on boot, etc.  The installation was supposedly completed
successfuly, so I don't see where the problem lies.
Oh, and I put the bootloader on /dev/hdb6 (LInux bootable partition) and not
on MBR, which I thought would fix things.

Can anyone suggest anything or rezognize the problem?

Thanks!

Otis
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