[PLUG] Boot Hangs After LILO

[drew wymore]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> >   Up until this morning, my Sony VAIO notebook booted and ran just
> > fine. Including yesterday afternoon. Now, when I try to boot it,
> > LILO completes, but nothing happens after that. It sits there with
> > no hard drive activity and doesn't continue loading the OS.
> >
> >   According to http://www.dslreports.com/faq/1622, if I see LILO on
> > the screen, followed by loading linux-2.6.21.5 and a bunch of dots
> > walking across the screen, then all parts of LILO have worked as
> > designed. There are no BIOS error messages. The installed OS is
> > Slackware-12.0.
> >
> >   When I reboot with my knoppix-3.6 cdrom inserted, it boots and I
> > can look at all partitions in /dev/hda5. /dev/hda6, and /dev/hda7
> > (the user partitions as originally set up by Emperor Linux).
> >
> >   What might be the reason for the system to hang and not continue
> > booting at this point?
>
> Corrupted kernel image or initrd?
>
> --
>

No chance you upgraded the kernel Rich? Were you running in console or frame
buffer boot mode (pardon my ignorance on this one I've always let it boot @
640x480)?

I've had weird issues after kernel upgrades and booting when I was using
frame buffer mode in Slackware.

Drew-