LILO Boot Hangs

From: J Eckenroth (news.3.jeckenroth_rt_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: 29 Mar 2004 13:38:00 -0800

I'm having a problem with LILO and I can't seem to find any other post
like this one.

Here's the problem:

LILO is installed in the MBR and boots to the prompt. At the prompt,
the delay and timeout options seem to be ignored because the system
just hangs at that point. When I say hang, it displays the prompt menu
and the "boot:" prompt until you hit enter on the keyboard.

I've tried varying combination of options, but always with similar
results. If I remove the prompt all togahter than the system halts
after LILO is displayed and I have ot use a boot disk to recover.

Attached below is my lilo.conf file. I was sure to run /sbin/lilo
after each change. I also tried disconnecting the keyboard in case it
was tripping the timeout to be ignored. I keep thinking that it might
be something funky with my BIOS, but this is just a standard P3 with
an Award Bios.

I am sure that this is something simple but I would appericate any
expertise that anyone can lend me. I really want this system to be
able to be reboot unattended.

Thanks.

-Jeremy

lilo.conf
-------------------------------------------
lba32
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda5
compact
install=/boot/boot-menu.b
map=/boot/map
prompt
timeout=30
delay=30
vga=normal
default=Linux

image=/vmlinuz
        label=Linux
        read-only

image=/vmlinuz.old
        label=LinuxOLD
        read-only
-------------------------------------------

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