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by **Charles Nah** » Thu, 17 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Can anyone help?

When I boot up, the computer gets stuck at "LI" and doesn't
proceed any farther.

Is there a way I can remove the Linux Loader completely?

Charles

by **Helge Lenuwei** » Thu, 17 Dec 1998 04:00:00

> Can anyone help?

> When I boot up, the computer gets stuck at "LI" and doesn't
> proceed any farther.

> Is there a way I can remove the Linux Loader completely?

> Charles

I assume that you don't have a Linux emergency disk. To remove LILO
completely and boot up DOS/Windows at startup, use a DOS/Windows
bootdisk that has fdisk.exe on it. At the A: prompt, type

fdisk /mbr

to restore the default master boot record on your hard drive. Rebooting
your system should get you in DOS/Windows. From there, you can boot up
Linux with the loadlin utility.

Hope that helps
Helge

by **Thomas Schulze-Velmed** » Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Hi Charles,

Quote:> When I boot up, the computer gets stuck at "LI" and doesn't
> proceed any farther.

I got the same problem some weeks ago.What does it mean, if Lilo stucks
at "LI"?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Thomas SV

by **William Lac** » Wed, 23 Dec 1998 04:00:00

> Hi Charles,

> > When I boot up, the computer gets stuck at "LI" and doesn't
> > proceed any farther.

> I got the same problem some weeks ago.What does it mean, if Lilo stucks
> at "LI"?

> Thanks in advance

> Regards

> Thomas SV

Did you recompile the kernel, or change to a different kernel? If so,
you should rerun lilo (and go over liloconf) because lilo is kernel
specific- if the kernel waiting at the end of the line isn't the same
one that was there when you ran lilo it won't work.
In this case use a boot disk or loadlin to get back into the system and
rerun lilo

by **Thomas Schulze-Velmed** » Wed, 23 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Hi William,

> > What does it mean, if Lilo stucks at "LI"?
> In this case use a boot disk or loadlin to get back into the system and
> rerun lilo

Thank you for your help, but I just want to know what it means if lilo
stucks at "LI".
(Every letter that appears when lilo boots the system has a specific
meaning.)
I just lost the description of these meanings....

Bye

Thomas

by **Jeremy Mathe** » Wed, 23 Dec 1998 04:00:00

>> > When I boot up, the computer gets stuck at "LI" and doesn't
>> > proceed any farther.

>> I got the same problem some weeks ago.What does it mean, if Lilo stucks
>> at "LI"?
...
>Did you recompile the kernel, or change to a different kernel? If so,
>you should rerun lilo (and go over liloconf) because lilo is kernel
>specific- if the kernel waiting at the end of the line isn't the same
>one that was there when you ran lilo it won't work.
>In this case use a boot disk or loadlin to get back into the system and
>rerun lilo

Actually, the "I forgot to re-run LILO" scenario will result in either
booting an old kernel (since LILO points to the sectors occupied by
the old kernel) or a failure at some point after the kernel starts booting.

In my experience, the 'LI' hang is caused by a (mildly) screwed up
partition table. That is, not screwed up badly enough that the disk
partitions are rendered invalid, but just something not entirely
internally consistent. In fact, you can usually boot DOS, but not LILO.

One example of this is if the disk geometry reported by Linux on boot
(in the "<partition check>") is different than that reported by the BIOS.
You can also detect this by doing "fdisk -l" which will complain about
the weird geometry.

When this happens, you then have to ask yourself a couple of hard questions:

1) How did it get this way?
and
2) How am I going to fix it?

by **Linus Cha** » Wed, 23 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Any help or advice on this would be appreciated.. and I just to let you know I am
an alum at U of C

WEll I just got this prompt (LI) and here is my problem....

I had removed the Linux partition in my hard drive in an attempt to remove
linux..no problem.. I could simply start Windows after the LILO promot which I
did for a Long time (NEarly a year this way) until last night... I installed
something on my win95 side and when I reboot I only get LI I no longer have the
linux partition anymore so i can't reconfig LILO without reinstalling linux which
means destroying one of my DOS partitions! (I have 2 hard drive, my C: drive has
my windows system folders. and i originally installed linux on my D drive.) So
how bad is my situation? And if I have to reinstall Linux .. is there a way to
remove Linux and LILO from my machine afterwards? any help is appreciated!!

Linus

> >> > When I boot up, the computer gets stuck at "LI" and doesn't
> >> > proceed any farther.

> >> I got the same problem some weeks ago.What does it mean, if Lilo stucks
> >> at "LI"?
> ...
> >Did you recompile the kernel, or change to a different kernel? If so,
> >you should rerun lilo (and go over liloconf) because lilo is kernel
> >specific- if the kernel waiting at the end of the line isn't the same
> >one that was there when you ran lilo it won't work.
> >In this case use a boot disk or loadlin to get back into the system and
> >rerun lilo

> Actually, the "I forgot to re-run LILO" scenario will result in either
> booting an old kernel (since LILO points to the sectors occupied by
> the old kernel) or a failure at some point after the kernel starts booting.

> In my experience, the 'LI' hang is caused by a (mildly) screwed up
> partition table. That is, not screwed up badly enough that the disk
> partitions are rendered invalid, but just something not entirely
> internally consistent. In fact, you can usually boot DOS, but not LILO.

> One example of this is if the disk geometry reported by Linux on boot
> (in the "<partition check>") is different than that reported by the BIOS.
> You can also detect this by doing "fdisk -l" which will complain about
> the weird geometry.

> When this happens, you then have to ask yourself a couple of hard questions:

> 1) How did it get this way?
> and
> 2) How am I going to fix it?

by **Stev** » Thu, 24 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Quote:
> how bad is my situation? And if I have to reinstall Linux .. is there a way to
> remove Linux and LILO from my machine afterwards? any help is appreciated!!

> Linus

It sounds like you want LILO off your MBR. One thing you could do is use Norton on
the disk. Norton will look for boot sector viruses and repair the MBR, I'm pretty
sure
it will wipe LILO off the disk.

Steve

by **Daniel Buettne** » Fri, 01 Jan 1999 04:00:00

> Hi William,

>> > What does it mean, if Lilo stucks at "LI"?
>> In this case use a boot disk or loadlin to get back into the system and
>> rerun lilo
> Thank you for your help, but I just want to know what it means if lilo
> stucks at "LI".
> (Every letter that appears when lilo boots the system has a specific
> meaning.)
> I just lost the description of these meanings....

Accoring to the LILO documentation, printing LI at bootup and*
is caused by a "geometry mismatch". This can be caused if you have
one of them fancy new hard drives with mammoth size that has more than
1024 cylinders. If this is the cause of the problem (and it may not be)
you can create a partition that lies *entirely* below the 1024 cylinder
boundary and create a bootable linux partition here with LILO installed
in its root sector thingie.

HTH,
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