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You probably haven't read the documentation for LILO :
<p>The word LILO at boot time with each letter represents actualy
how the progress of the process
<br> L The first step is complete but the
second could not be completed (could not find /boot/boot.b propably)
<p>I The second step invoked
but could not be started (probably faulty disk geometry or to moving
<br> /boot/boot.b
without reinstalling LILO
<p>You can find the complete set in the manual
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<p>Alexios Konstantinidis wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> <font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Dear Sir/Madam,</font></font> <font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Only
recently I decided to start familiarizing with LINUX (REDHAT 5.2).
I made two installations.</font></font> <font color="#000000"><font size=-1>One
at home. A PLATO machine from Pouliadis & Parteners.</font></font> <font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Everything
worked so well. Once the installation completed in 30min, everything
was running smoothly.</font></font> <font size=-1>I take the Hard
Disk (physically) and I install it at my SIEMENS machine at work.</font> <font size=-1>Boot
it from the BIOS (selecting the hard drive) and nothing happens.
Just "LI" printed on screen.</font> <font size=-1>At first I thought
that having assigned "hda1" for Linux during installation and having it
as a slave hard disk on the SIEMENS system hdb1 (at the PLATO machine I
had it as primary), causes the problem. (I don't think so because during
installation there is a window specifing to use the partitions either as
hda or hdb or something similar.</font> <font size=-1>I change the
master slave configuration and nothing happens. Again LI.</font> <font size=-1>All
right I boot from a boot up disk.</font> <font size=-1>Everything
fine, login promt and I put the "root" password and ........... Password
is incorrect.!!!!!!!</font><font size=-1></font>
<p><font size=+1>From what disk ?</font>
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<br><font size=-1></font> <font size=-1>After three installations
with different passwords and ......... Password is incorrect!!!!!! I am
desperate and I write to you.</font>
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<br><font size=-1></font> <font size=-1>I always format the
partitions at every new installation and I even made a new start-up disk
for each installation (not significant but anyrate).</font> <font size=-1>I
would appreciate your assistance.</font> <font size=-1>Yours Sincerely,</font><font size=-1>Alexios
Konstantinidis</font> </blockquote>
<p>Try to completly erase the partitions reboot and then create
them again (in case it doesn't format the partitions and keeping the old
/etc directory who has the password file).
<p>I really don't now much about the RedHat 5.2 (se use the SuSE
Linux distribution) but probably
<br> you are not formating the partition .
<p>Let me know if this helps
<p>Regards
<br>G. Papamichelakis
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