[ale] Newbie install question

[tom at watson.st]

You are right. I get 
LI
and that's it. I have an IBM DHEA 36480 so I went to the IBM site and could
not find a low-level format utility there. Is there a generic one that will
work? or something else that will work. (I tried several suggestions on the
mailist with no luck)...

Tom


>At 12:39 AM 12/16/99 -0500, Peck Dickens wrote:
>>When the boot hangs, does the screen look sort of like this:
>>
>>LI
>>
>>or 
>>
>>LIL
>>
>>Instead of:
>>
>>LILO
>>
>>If it does, the MBR (Master Boot Record) is corrupt. The solution of this
>>problem is to boot from a floppy and then to re-install LILO. If this
does not
>>solve the problem, the only thing I have found that will solve the
problem is
>>to low level format the drive. In the event your bios will not low level
format
>>the drive, go to the web page of the manufacturer of the hard drive and they
>>should have a format utility program for your drive.
>>
>>The only other thing it could be is that somehow LILO is not being installed
>>onto the MBR.
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>>On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, you wrote:
>>> I have installed RH 6.1 about three times on a machine now and everytime I
>>> get to the bootloader screen I get a failure whether I pick the master
boot
>>> record or the first partition. I can get by the failure but then LILO will
>>> not start (the boot hangs). The only way I can boot is with a boot disk.
>>> That's not terrible but its a pain.
>>> Is this a common problem or is there a way to install LILO after the RH
6.1
>>> install is finished. I cannot find this problem in the HOWTOs, but if
>>> anyone knows where to read about it, please let me know.
>>> 
>>> Thx in advance,
>>> Tom
>>> 
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>>

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