LI on boot

rustyc rustyc@descomp.com.carruth.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 3 Oct 100 08:37:07 -0700 (MST)


> 
> Ok. I've been fighting an install of RH6.2 all day today, but can't for the
> life of me get linux to boot from the hd without a fd. argh

in my experience, 'LI' means that lilo has a problem seein the
boot images.  (Happens to me when I run vmware with drives disabled).

> The hard drive is a wdc 31200...CHS = 2484/16/63. (bios sees this fine)
> 
> During the first install, I had two partitions, / and swap. Didn't work.
> Then I tried /, /boot, and swap. Still didn't work.

hmm.  reading the rest of your comments seems to imply that you
made a boot partition starting at the lowest possible location
on the disk (and made it, what, less than 100 meg ;-), so lilo should
be able to see it.

what does lilo say when you run it at the command line?


rusty (rustyc at descomp.com)