[Wylug-help] Boot Question

[Roger Greenwood]

John Hodrien wrote:
>
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Roger Greenwood wrote:
>
> > On a re-boot, the normal sequence only gets to "LIL" and then halts. I have
> > to start with the CD/DVD boot, start the install, select the language, then
> > after the hardware probe I can select the option to boot the installed
> > system, which works fine. This happened again last night due to a power cut
> > and my UPS not being up to the job for more than about 20 minutes. Although
> > the problem has been with me for a long time now, it is not really too hard
> > to live with because the machine stays on all the time. I would like to sort
> > it though.
>
> Rerun lilo (as root)?  I'm guessing that your lilo conf is correct mind...
> Possible that it didn't get written properly the first time it got installed.

Done that - no errors reported, no effect.

> > Is this a hardware problem ?
>
> Doubt it.
>
> > Any ideas how to further diagnose/test/investigate/sort ?
> >
> > I am a still a Linux novice so nothing too clever please!!
>
> Have a look at /etc/lilo.conf
>
> as long as it has boot=/dev/hda and an entry for linux with root=/dev/hda5 I'd
> guess it'd be fine.
Yes the lilo.conf file has all the entries correct, i.e.:-

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Oct 17 23:30:14 2002


boot = /dev/hda5
vga = 791
read-only
menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg
lba32
prompt
timeout	= 80
message = /boot/message

image = /boot/vmlinuz
    label = linux
    root = /dev/hda6
    initrd = /boot/initrd
    append = "   disableapic vga=0x0317"

image = /boot/vmlinuz.shipped
    label = failsafe
    root = /dev/hda6
    initrd = /boot/initrd.shipped
    append = "disableapic ide=nodma apm=off"
    optional

other = /dev/hdc1
    # automatically added by patch_lilo_conf
    optional
    label = windows

image = /boot/memtest.bin
    label = memtest86

Any other thoughts ?

Roger Greenwood.

>
> jh
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