RH 7.1 install problem

Tom Bradford plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:29:01 -0700


David O'Malley wrote:
> Sure enough, upon reboot and after POST I got a L on the screen, and it
> froze there.  Nothing a Windows system disk couldn't fix.  When I go back
> into Linux, and try to configure lilo.conf, I still get the message above
> when I run lilo, and it does the same thing to my boot record.  I've tried
> putting in lba32, fix-table, and taking out linear, in all different
> combinations.  Any suggestions (besides booting to floppy every time, or
> getting rid of Winblowz)?

I've had this problem with LILO on several Dell machines.  Oddly enough,
I've had no problems with GRUB, so you may want to try that instead.

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