Hi,
There was a time when my lilo failed on my redhat 7.x server
after a reboot.
So I overwrote it with grub and it works.
so .. 2 cents try grub.
Cheers
patrick
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Colin Jack wrote:
> Hi Blues,
>
> We have had a very uncomfortable day and would appreciate some
> help/ideas from those more knowledgeable than me!
>
> We had a server with Brian's 4.3 ISO installed and running happily. We
> have rebooted the server since install a number of times without
> incident and yum updated regularly.
>
> Then we recently had a yum update stall on us and
>
> killall yum_install
> killall yum
>
> This sent the server (which was working up until then) into a sulk.
> We rebooted and it wouldn't go past the LILO
>
> Booted a Knoppix disk and tried to mount but would only see /boot
>
> We have an identical (hardwarewise) back up server without an OS, so
> installed 4.5, which appeared to install cleanly but on reboot did the
> same as the sick server. Tried the 4.6 ISO and the 4.3 ISO .... with the
> same result. Stopped at the LILO screen.
>
> The guy working on it is pretty knowledgeable (more so than me) but
> couldn't resolve the problem.
>
> We have restored to another lower spec machine (Dell) and that is
> running - albeit very slowly.
>
> I need to get the main servers running, but am short on ideas.
>
> Basic spec.
>
> Intel mainboard
> 1 x Xeon
> 2Gb RAM
> Intel SCSI
> 2 x 72Gb HDD (software mirror)
>
> Anybody any ideas?
>
> many thanks
>
> Colin
>
>
>