Re: Boot Problem

David N. Lombard (david.lombard@mscsoftware.com)
Wed, 23 May 2001 13:47:02 -0700

Patric Mrawek wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> sometimes one of my servers doesn't boot correctly. Lilo reads the
> kernel-image, but doesn't decompress it. So the system won't
> continue booting.
>
> Looks like:
> Loading linux...................
> (at this point the machine freezes)

Our experience of this has been with suspect hardware. It was our first
(pre-release) P4 system, so we puzzled over it for a short while; later
testing on other P4 systems showed no such problem.

-- 
David N. Lombard
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