Bug 11050

Summary:	LiLo hangs from fresh install of 6.2 but will boot from boot disk
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Warren Sharp <wsharp>
Component:	lilo	Assignee:	Doug Ledford <dledford>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	mtaylor
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Description Warren Sharp 2000-04-26 01:47:40 UTC

I've installed a fresh install of RedHat Linux 6.2 on a machine and
everytime when it's finished I get Li and it hangs when booting from the
HD.  I did make a boot disk and it works fine.  I'm setting this machine
up for someone else and they are not happy with it booting from a floppy
and I can't blame them.  I've had this problem with 6.2 before but a fresh
install or upgrade fixed it.  It isn't working now though and the only
thing I know of trying now is a low level format, since 3 fresh installs
haven't fixed it and a couple of upgrades.  I'm not that great at RedHat,
but I've installed 6.1 many times, and didn't have this problem.

Comment 1 Agustin Bejarano 2000-06-14 13:30:20 UTC

It does not work when you install lilo loader over primary partition,the same 
problem has hapened to me,  if you install lilo over MBR it works.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2000-11-13 19:50:34 UTC

When I installed over the primary partition, I got this same error. When I 
installed lilo over the MBR, it just printed an endless stream of "10101010..." 
on my screen, and the computer didn't respond.

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2001-01-22 09:08:42 UTC

My Pentium3 Notebook also dosen`t boot with Lilo and Kernel 2.2.14; a reboot will happend then or sometimes
also the screen is filled with "01010101" or the Notebook will not respond and I have to take power off to reboot.
Only if I disable the primary Cache of the CPU in BIOS, Lilo boots the Kernel properly......

Comment 4 Warren Sharp 2001-04-18 21:51:03 UTC

I did not open this bug....  resolving as WORKSFORME.
Re-open as different reporter if someone else cares about this.