[plug] LILO Problems

[Gary Allpike]

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Matt Kemner wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
> 
> > I've got a problem on the boot setup of lilo I've got a 366 mhz pentium
> > running RH5.2 with a 9.2 gig SCSI hard drive with two partitions
> 
> Did you tell your BIOS to boot off the SCSI drive?
> Does you SCSI card support booting of drives, is it switched on, and has
> it been told which SCSI ID. to boot off?
> 
> Also, some SCSI HDDs need to have lilo installed with "linear" in
> /etc/lilo.conf (or with lilo run with -l)
> 
> > Verifying DMI Pool Data ........
> > 1FA: 
> > 
> > then it hangs.
> 
> That really suggests a BIOS problem to me - it is usually printed when the
> BIOS can't find a hard disk to boot off.
> 
>  - Matt
> 


This is actually LILO.

Its asking you if you want to boot off partition 1 (1), Floppy (F) or (I
cant remember what A is) (A)

have a look in the lilo docs.


Very often I see this type of error if you have "boot=/dev/sda1"
instead of "boot=/dev/sda" in your lilo.conf

regards

Gary Allpike