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Linux boot, 911!!!

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Primus

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I have a major problem. One of my CVS server just started acting funny. After reboot it refuses to boot! All I see is the usual BIOS stuff, and then underneath all the devices listing I get this

LIL-_ blinking cursor!

Any idea??? If I pop in the CD I can get into single mode, but I'm not sure what to do from there.

I'm running RedHat 6.2
 
Oooh, not good. LIL- means: The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map installer.

Probably what happened during the crash is that the inode became corrupt. What you need to do fsck the disk.
 
Even a reinstall won't work for some strange reason 🙁

We ran out of options so we ran the install again... 3 times and it's still the same problem even after reformat.
 
Are you sure you have the drive geometry parameters set correctly in the BIOS? This could cause that problem as well.
 
Should be correct, the auto detect matches that of the drive spec.

Anything else I can try? It's a 10GB Fujitsu, on some old Asus Socket 7 mobo, K6 350
 
Duh! 🙂 I rarely use the GUI installers. Mostly because I know the curses/ncurses/text ones so much better.
 
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