by After installing Slackware 3.1 in a 386/33 with an Adaptec 1542C SCSI
controller and a 660Mb disk, LILO hangs on booting, after printing
"LI". No other error messages are printed. I have re-run /sbin/lilo lots
of times, and have tried adding the "linear" option to my /etc/lilo.conf,
without success. I can boot from the "scsinet" floppy successfully with
"mount root=/dev/sda3 ro". In the SCSI settings, I have "Extended translation
for drives > 1Gb" set to disabled, as my drive is not that large. Further,
I previously installed Slackware 2.0.2 and 3.0 with the same setup - the
problem is related to 3.1.
Comments or suggestions, anyone?
Running "lilo -v" gives:
LILO version 19, Copyright 1992-1996 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda3
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /vmlinuz
Added Linux *
Boot other: /dev/sda1, on /dev/sda, loader /boot/chain.b
Added DOS
/boot/boot.0803 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
My /etc/lilo.conf looks like:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/sda3
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
delay = 50
vga = normal # force sane state
ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
linear
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda3
label = Linux
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda1
label = DOS
table = /dev/sda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
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