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Rezzin

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I'm having problem booting to Linux. I've tried RH7.1 and 7.2 and both install fine. (have tried workstation and custom installs). When the OS starts to boot it only gets as far as:

LI

then it just stops. I chose no bootloader as the boot option. I'm new to linux.. any suggestions would be really appreciated!

 
I am guesting that you have gone over the 1024 cylinder limit of lilo.

try having your /boot as the "/dev/sda1" "/dev/hda1"
and make it about 25 -50mb
then the rest of the system on the disk
or use grub
 
Parrition table:

/ = 6gig
/swap = 500MB

...and thats about it. So I should create an additional lets say 25-50mb /boot partition and the rest for / ? Perhaps grub will solve all my woes? I am confused about the LILO bit.. I thought LILO was a bootloader.. I chose 'no bootloader' during the install... I am probably just a little confused. Thanks again for the suggestions.. i'm going to try repartitioning now.
 
I had the exact same symptoms when I upgraded to RH 7.2. Turns out I put label=Red_Hat7.2(2.4.7) in the lilo.conf file. ()'s are illegal chars in lilo. If you use gvim to view lilo.conf, it will show you where the errors are by highlighting them red.
 
I think you still need a bootloader for a single OS machine. So make sure you put LILO in the MBR. It shouldnt cause *ANY* problems since you dont have to worry about Microsoft issues.
 
Look LILO errors descriptions. Also, it's good idea to put LILO into MBR even if you don't have dual boot machine: you may want to try kernel compiling and it's good to hold at least one working bootable kernel for backup.
 

install LILO in the MBR (you must have a bootloader, without it, you can't boot)

make a 50MB /boot as your first partition
 
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