Re: New install hangs on boot up

["Ophidian" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

what motherboard is that on, do you know?

ill see what i can find about it

Casey


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Cubley" <mcubley@shawneelink.com>
To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: New install hangs on boot up


> I have checked lilo.conf.  It appears to be a problem with the IDE
> controller and resource conflicts.  Intel 82801DB.  I have found reference
> to problems with it but no solutions.  Anyone know anything about it?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "greg" <frog@intertek.net>
> To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:04 PM
> Subject: Re: New install hangs on boot up
>
>
> > You may need to hand edit lilo.conf and change /dev/hda  to  /dev/hda1
or
> whatever is appropriate for where the boot image is stored, I've had that
> problem before with SuSE.
> >
> > Stephen D Reindl wrote:
> >
> > > I've had this problem before. Which bootloader did you install. LILO.
I
> > > could be way off base here but it might possibly be a geometry
problem.
> > > LILO seems to have a problem with the newer BIG drives. Is this a dual
> > > boot? Although the kernel should see past the BIOS did you enable
block
> > > mode? You don't want that.
> > >
> > > Just food for thought.Or for ignoring.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 11:56, Michael Cubley wrote:
> > > > I have just installed RedHat 7.2 on a 40 GB Maxtor drive.  The
install
> went fine.  It was partitioned automatically into three partitions. When I
> try to boot, the system hangs (can't ctrl-alt-del) at the partition check
> for hda.  Anyone have any ideas?  fdisk says that the partition info is
ok.
> Thanks for any help you can give.
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