When the system comes up wit just "LI", it is a problem with the master boot record (MBR) of the machine. Generally speaking, this only happens on a dual boot machine. It happens because MS Windows likes to do funky things to the MBR.
In the old days (DOS - Win95), when this would happen, you would use the DOS fdisk utility to fix the problem - "DOS /MBR" ... This was an undocumented switch to fdisk that would repair the MBR of the primary HD. You would then need to reboot the machine, and boot linux using the boot floppy. After linux was up & running, make sure lilo.conf is as it should be and the run /sbin/lilo. I don't know if this works with the newer OS's, as I haven't made a dual boot machine since Win95.... -----Original Message----- From: Rhugga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing We just installed several RH 7.2 machines and a handfull of them have the following problem: When the system boots it hangs when LILO is supposed to appear. All we see is 'LI' and then nothing. I tried using a dos boot disk with 'fdisk /mbr' I then tried booting from a RH 7.2 boot disk and running lilo again but it still hangs. We did about 250 nodes and the same image was used for all, we have maybe 7-8 that have this problem. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, CC _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
