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[hatridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James (Jim) Hatridge)]

Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:32:26 +0100 (CET)
From: "James (Jim) Hatridge" <hatridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1001127212744.1088A-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SuSE 7.0 - boot problems




Hi Adrian et al....

I don't know if this will help you. But on one of my machines I upgraded,
like you with fresh install, the first time I tried LILO on it, it got
about half way thru the boot and hung. 

After messing with it, I found that on my DOS C drive I had LOADLIN from
my old install. It was interfering with LILO. Once I deleted it off the
DOS drive LILO worked fine. Not saying this is your problem, but can't
hurt looking at it. 

Later!

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Adrian Burd wrote:

> 
> My system is:
> 
> 300MHz PII, ASUS Motherboard, 10Gb IDE drive, 256Mb RAM - it also has
> Windows95 on a 2Mb SCSI drive via an Adaptec 2940.
> 
> I've previously had SuSE 5.3, 6.0, 6.1, 6.3 on this machine. Rather than
> simply upgrading, I did a fresh install of SuSE 7.0 Professional using
> Yast-1. Everything went fine until I attempted to reboot after removing
> the boot CD at the end of the installation. I got the LILO prompt as
> usual, and after typing Linux got the normal Loading Linux message
> followed by 14 periods (.). Then the cursor flipped to a new line and
> froze. Nothing happened at all. 
> 
> I can boot the installed version from the boot floppy or CD, but it
> doesn't seem to want to boot on its own, and I can't seen any error
> mesages in any of the logs (at least in the usual ones). It's almost as if
> the machine isn't uncompressing the kernel for some reason. 
> 
> To make sure that I hadn't screwed up the hardware or anything, I did a
> complete re-install of 6.3 using as near as possible the same settings as
> with the 7.0 installation. Works like a dream.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas? I've been beating my head on this one for a
> few days now without any joy.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adrian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian Burd, Dpt. Oceanography, Texas A&M University
> 
> http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~ecomodel
> 
> 
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