LILO hangs, but not the "LI problem"

LILO hangs, but not the "LI problem"

Post by Henrik Bergstr » Sat, 08 Aug 1998 04:00:00



I have just installed Slackware 3.4 and am experiencing some problems
with LILO. It boots just fine and the LILO boot-prompt appears. I can
see the selection of available images and it can also load my 'dos'
image just fine. If I choose one of the 'linux images' it just
displays

        Loading linux

and then hangs.

I have tried various lilo.conf options (such as 'linear' and
'fix-table') but nothing seems to help. 'linear' made it worse and
resulted in the "LI problem". LBA is on in my BIOS setup.

Can anyone help?

 
 
 

LILO hangs, but not the "LI problem"

Post by Eugene Blanchar » Mon, 10 Aug 1998 04:00:00



> I have just installed Slackware 3.4 and am experiencing some problems
> with LILO. It boots just fine and the LILO boot-prompt appears. I can
> see the selection of available images and it can also load my 'dos'
> image just fine. If I choose one of the 'linux images' it just
> displays

>         Loading linux

> and then hangs.

> I have tried various lilo.conf options (such as 'linear' and
> 'fix-table') but nothing seems to help. 'linear' made it worse and
> resulted in the "LI problem". LBA is on in my BIOS setup.

> Can anyone help?

This looks like a kernel problem and not a lilo problem. Can you boot
from a floppy to linux and see your hard-drive?

 
 
 

1. LILO hangs at "LI" problem

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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