Re: Boot problem

[Tom Pfeifer <mailmisc@snet.net>]

Most of the time this means that you have Lilo configured wrong. There
are essentially two steps needed to get Lilo going: editing the file
/etc/lilo.conf to correctly reflect your setup, and then running the
/sbin/lilo command to install Lilo.

If you post more information, such as...

1) the location of your root partition (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 etc.)
2) the current contents of your /etc/lilo.conf file
3) what other operating systems, if any, you have installed

...I'm sure someone here can get you going. 

The Lilo mini-HOWTO may also help:
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html#toc2

Tom

"Charles O. Hartman" wrote:
> 
> (newbie alert!)
> 
> (I've looked around the archives and haven't found anything that seems
> to help)
> 
> This is about a 486DX-100 system.
> 
> Debian Linux is installed on my hard disk, and I have a boot floppy. The
> floppy works OK, and uses the hard-disk root OK. When I try to boot from
> the hard disk, though, I see "LI" but no "LO"--that is, the boot prompt
> won't even complete (so I can't try giving it commands). Before I tried
> reinstalling the lilo package, at that half-a-prompt point the system
> went into fibrillation, issuing continuous beeps until I rebooted (i.e.,
> from the floppy). Now the beeps are gone but after "LI" the system stops
> and no keystrokes I can find make any difference, except Ctrl-Alt-Del.
> 
> Pressing Alt or Shift before the LILO prompt starts to appear (as
> suggested in one HOWTO) has no effect.
> 
> Does anyone recognize this pathology?
> 
> Charles Hartman
> the Ever Grateful to DebUsers
>