I've seen this on two customer machines: if the user lets LILO timeout there is a kernel panic; if RETURN is typed it boots normally. A workaround is to add an empty append line to lilo.conf: append=" "
Can you get me the details of these machines. We have not seen this behavior in the test lab, so any help that you can give would be greatly appreciated.
I have the same problem. If LILO times out, there's a kernel panic. VFS reports: "Cannot open root device 00:30." There is no default boot command line, no fallback and the lilo options line is "ro root=308" -- it seems as if the "8" is being ignored. David Cook's workaround (APPEND = " ") solves the problem here. Thanks!