I have installed a RH7.0 linux workstation on my machine. After playing around with it, i decided to remove it and make a custom installation to add samba and nfs server.
I lunched the installation cd-rom and removed prior partition with diskdruid, i added a 256k swap and a grow to fill disk lx native(about 3G). After that i continued with the installation that finally bugged on me. I tried again to installed but it failed again. i decided to try removing prior partition with fdisk and making new one with disk druid but again it didn't work. Once i reboot the system i keep on getting LI at the lilo boot prompt. Please, if someone can give me some hints, i have been trying for over a week now without any success.
thanks for reading
Dan

Are there any other partitions on the machine? Chances are you have hit the 1024 cylinder limit. Newer versions of lilo can get around this but I usually just make a 24MB partition as the first partition on the first HDD and mount it as /boot.

There is also a lilo howto that describes the diagnostics of the "LILO" message at boot. "LI" means something, I'm just not sure what. Read up.

The LI error message is expected here since you changed your partitioning without running /sbin/lilo.
LI tells you that the first part of Lilo loaded but it couldn't find the kernel where your master boot record told it to look.

As mcleodnine siad you might have a trouble with >1024 cylinder. Try to make a small /boot partition at the beginning of your hard disk.

I've also seen this happen when people install LILO to the super block not the MBR. Might wanna check that one too.

HTH

Jamie...

If possible, make your HD LBA or Large in the bios. The LI prompt(as mentioned previously) is all about not being able to find your kernel(whether b/c it's not there or b/c your drive is too large). It sounds like you've been removing your partitions with disk druid but haven't been cleaning out the MBR. Try doing that(in windows you do a fdisk /mbr I'm not 100% sure how in Linux) because if not your Lilo is still looking for your old partition which isn't there.