I have had this problem before and I attributed it to the following problem.
The hard drive geometry in my bios was different to the geometry that fdisk
was acquiring when I made my partitions. Why this was I don't know but it
gave me the same problem you are describing. To solve the problem I
reinstalled RH and at the Lilo prompt appended my HD geometry...
linux hd=cylinders,heads,sectors
...After I finished the installation all worked fine. Hope this helps.
Regards
James
I've installed RH6.1 on a pentium 133 w/ 64 megs ram. Installed large swap
part., 12 meg boot part., and 2+ gig at /
On bootup, all I get is the LI message, and nothing happens. I can use the
boot floppy to get in just fine, but not booting from HD.
This is an older macine with a bios limitation. I'm using a 4 gig drive,
with the first partition reserved for win98. The 2.5 remaining is spread
out over the partitions I mentioned above. I also had to install a hard
drive utility on the first partition in order for the drive to be recognized
correctly as 4 gig. Otherwise, the bios incorrectly ID's it as 80 meg,
even with the most current BIOS update.
Any suggestions to help me boot from the HD?
Brian
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