Tried GRUB and that didn't work either ....
Thanks for that
Colin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: patricko (at mark) staff.singnet.com.sg
> [mailto:patricko (at mark) staff.singnet.com.sg]
> Sent: 27 October 2006 19:36
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:07745] Re: SCSI
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>