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I have loaded Red Hat 6.1 on my Compaq Prosignia 300. After successfully loading a SERVER install to my server and reboot, the following happens; LI appears in the upper left corner of my screen and the server just locks up and does nothing more. MHARMON@CSSIUSA.COM
Now, I'm not sure about this, but the Linux reference I use - "Red Hat Linux Unleashed" tells me that that is actually an error code that LILO will return. According to my book, it means that "the second-stage boot loader loaded, but could not run". But, I don't know what that means. You may check to make sure that and make sure you didn't make some bogus changes to lilo.conf using a boot disk.
I had this very situation occur earlier today. It turned out to be because the partition table was set up for the disk in LBA mode but the BIOS was declaring it to be in NORMAL mode instead, with the result that references outside of cylinder 0, head 0 were going to the wrong part of the disk. You may wish to tweak your BIOS and find out if a different mode setting fixes the problem.
Assigned to dledford
I had the same problem and gave up on linux for about a week, but just a few days ago I had a problem with my computer and installing windows 2000 and wound up formatting my harddrive, after that I managed to install linux for some reason even though I was installing it on a second seperate harddrive.
Do you still have this problem with more current versions of Red Hat Linux?
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