On Mon, 20 May 2002, Douglas Thompson wrote:
Hi all,
I've just installed RedHat 7.0 On my 256MB-RAM 1200MHZ-AMD-ATHLON-TBIRD 38.9GB-HDD. When I rebooted, 40 cept on flashing across the screen. Nothing happened after 20mins, so I installed SuSE 8.0 over it. Anybody know how to stop those 40s? (They came up as soon as LILO started).
DougT
It means LILO couldn't see far enough down the disk to be able to boot from it. Sometimes with the same problem you just get LI appear.
repartition the disk, creating a small partition (10Mb should do) at the very start of the disk, mount it as /boot.
Reinstall LILO and it should work.
I had the 40's a couple of weeks ago at work. I was trying to make it boot of it's shiny new hardware raid I'd just installed. got round the problem by putting in a crappy old IDE disk that contained /boot and the swap partition, and used the raid for everything else. It's been running 3 weeks without problems (well no ones asked me to mend it!)
Hope that helps
Chris