RE: Lilo problems with Redhat 6.0 (fwd)

[redhat seinfeld engr ucf edu]

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Uncle Meat wrote:

> 
> On 28-Sep-99 redhat seinfeld engr ucf edu opined:
> > 
> > I have an old 468 that I am using as a masquerade server.  It is
> > running
> > RH 5.2 with 2.0.36 using ipchains.  I went to upgrade the server to
> > use RH
> > 6.0.  I installed the system on a separate partition so that I would
> > not
> > mess up the existing install.  The install went fine, but then I
> > rebooted
> > and lilo came up with "LI" and just froze.
> > 
> > So I booted back into 5.2 and ran lilo to install the old boot sector
> > and
> > it ran fine.  I then built a kernel 2.2.10 on my main machine and
> > copied
> > it over to the server and set the system up to use it with the 5.2
> > lilo.
> > I rebooted an the system came up.  The problem is, that everytime I
> > run
> > lilo on the RH 6.0 system using a 2.2 kernel lilo does not work, and
> > I
> > have to reboot to 5.2 to get the system to work.
> > 
> > Has anyone heard of this problem, or knows what is going wrong.
> 
> This wouldn't happen to be the the ol' 1024-cyl trick, would it? In
> other words, is the partition located below that mark?
> 
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Nope, both root partions are below the 1024 cyl mark.  Besides running
lilo under redhat 5.2 does not have the problem, only when I run it under
6.0

Judd Tracy
jtr isl engr ucf edu