Re: LILO failed on Compaq ProLiant 5500

[Prabhakar Sarma Neog]

The LI only comes when it can find the boot sector in the MBR but not the
rest part, i.e. the initrd, kernel etc. Have you installed lilo in the
1st partition of boot HD & not in the MBR? 

Some (or all??) Compaq m/cs has a part of their setup stored in a special
partition of the hard disk. Have you taken it into account while
installing lilo?

For my Compaq deskpro m/c with adaptac SCSI HD's, what I did is to install
the compaq setup in the partition that it took automatically (1st
partition of first HD), then installed MS DOS system files in that (sys
c:) so that that partition itself becomes bootable. Then I installed LILO
& added a label for that partition. It works fine now.

-Prabhakar

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Prabhakar Sarma Neog Computer Engineer, Indian Institute of Technology,
Guwahati.
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Hoang Manh Hung wrote:

> I tried to install Redhat 6.1 on Compaq ProLiant 5500.
> The root (/) and swap are located on 2nd SCSI disk (9GB).
> Everything seems OK, but when it restart there is only message "LI"
> on the screen and it hangs.
> 
> Could someone help me?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> HungHM.
> 
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