[ale] on bootup RH7.2 gets to 'LI' and stalls,but will bootup/run fine from emerg. floppy..........

[Cy Kurtz]

I've seen this problem on my system. The solution was to change the LBA
feature in the hard disk portion of the bios, reboot from the emergency
floppy, and then reinstall lilo to the master boot record.

hope this helps,
Cy Kurtz

On Sat, 4 May
2002, Courtney Thomas wrote:

> I've installed RedHat 7.2 twice today and the first time used fdisk and
> since that hung.....next, I let RH7.2 'auto' partition, expecting that
> might cure whatever error there was in my way. No way.
>
> I'm using a 9Gig, brand new, Fujitsu, LVD drive with a DPT 2144UW
> controller. I also tried it with a Tekram 390F, with the same result.
>
> I've read some LILO docs and mentioned is a possible disk geometry
> problem. Any ideas.............
>
> Also I was wondering if anyone had had an experience which required that
> a drive be first formatted with their controller before they could get a
> clean boot. I just connected it to the controller and started trying to
> install. It's such a laborious/time consumer I hate to waste any energy
> on guessing.
>
> When I run /sbin/lilo I get an output message that............
> 	Warning: /dev/sda1 is not on the first disk
> I'm sure this is clear to someone as to what's going on, but not me.
>
> All help appreciated,
> Courtney
>
>
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