Bug 448694 - can't boot the kernel with lilo
Summary: can't boot the kernel with lilo
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager
QA Contact: Martin Jenner
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Reported: 2008-05-28 09:35 UTC by Levente Farkas
Modified: 2008-05-28 13:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-05-28 13:28:32 UTC
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Description Levente Farkas 2008-05-28 09:35:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
the latest kernel-2.6.18-92.el5 is not able to boot with lilo on an old
motherborad. the last kernel was which was able to boot on the same machine with
lilo. actually nothing happend start tart to load the kernel (print two lines of
....) and then hang forever. if we switch to kernel-2.6.18-5.1.6.el5 then it's
boot perfectly. if there any way eg kernel command line options to boot the new
kernel?

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Comment 1 Levente Farkas 2008-05-28 11:20:51 UTC 
MB: MSI 845PE Max MS-6580 VER:2.0
HDD: 5 x  SAMSUNG PATA 160GB
GRABBER: 5 x IVC100
PCI IDE: kw571a
GRAPHICS: MSI MX4000 64M
RAM: 512 DDR333
Comment 2 Prarit Bhargava 2008-05-28 13:28:32 UTC 
lilo is not supported in RHEL5 -- please use grub.

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