DL140 Generation 1 (G1) and LILO do not work

Byetzion

I add to this blog all pieces of information which I might think could help other people.

One of the things I have encountered short while ago had to do with DL140 G1 system cannot boot Linux.

It’s Linux system (RedHat 4 32bit) was deployed by an external system and the system could not boot. However, when installed from CD, the system booted just fine. The symptom for this was that after booting, the screen showed:

LILO: Loading Linux…..

and that’s all. The system could have booted (and did so once) after several days, however, this is not really a desired status.

It seems to be an issue of Lilo and this specific hardware. Other systems (non DL140) were able to boot just fine using Lilo, and this same kernel version was bootable on that system through other means.

Replacing Lilo with GRUB during installation/deployment solved the isse. FYI.

Related posts:

  1. Installing RHEL4 on HP DL140 G3 with the embedded RAID enabled
  2. Dell PowerEdge 1800 and Linux – Part 1
  3. Upgrading Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10 with software non-standard RAID configuraion
  4. HP ML110 G3 and Linux Centos 4.3 / RHEL 4 Update 3

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