On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 02:42:07 -0600, Rory O'Connor wrote: >i just re-built my debian system from the disk image, and i'm having the >same problem i had before i rebuilt it -- it hangs at "LI" when trying to >boot from the hard disk. I can boot from the emergency floppy just fine >though.
I just started with Debian this month, and have already seen a similar problem on a machine I got from surplus. It had one internal IDE HD, and one internal SCSI HD plugged into an Adaptec card. I installed Debian on the IDE HD, but the system wouldn't boot. In my case, I found that it appeared that the BIOS was configured to select the SCSI HD as the primary boot device. I assumed that since there were no bootable partitions on that device, LILO was hanging. I also found that the BIOS was password protected, and that I couldn't change this configuration without the password. Removing the motherboard battery for a while solved that. The BIOS defaults were reloaded and the system booted up normally. HTH Kevin B.
