LILO boots "L" and halts

system · 12-28-2001, 09:44 AM

This is on a fresh install of RH 7.1 too.
Does anyone out there know what the LILO letters actually mean during the boot process? I remember that they indicate certain tasks have completed successfully, but I do not remember what letters mean which tasks.

bluecadet · 12-28-2001, 10:25 AM

it's not hard to search for an answer...

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/a1439.html

i've got a sysadmin book with loads of lilo troubleshooting in it, but i've just been searching for it, and i can't see it anywhere... bum...

oh found it...

hehe, it just says what's on that page.. cheats.

Negative Kreep · 12-28-2001, 04:38 PM

I had this prob on some obscure distro I was playing with and I seem to remember it had something to do with where the linux partition was placed on the hard drive, I had muliple partitions on 2 different drives & lilo wanted linux to be on the first hard drive in a partion with a starting address of less than 1024 -- err cylinders I think, not MB, not sure --
think this was an old Caledra distribution with a pre 2.0.0x kernel on a 386 though so what do you expect???

I got a list of LILO hang ups...somewhere...

linuxcool · 12-29-2001, 12:17 AM

Here's another page . It also lists the meanings for any error numbers you get.

system · 12-29-2001, 02:29 PM

Yes. I believe it was a BIOS problem. The filesystem is 15 gigs so it is over the 1024 boundary. Adding "lba32" to the lilo.conf solved the problem.