Brian Myers wrote:
>
> I know this is a common problem in setting up dual-boot systems. I've
> searched through the newsgroups; apparently the likely cause is some
> mismatch in disk geometry.

I recently had a "LI" boot failure as well, which I don't believe had
anything to do with disk geometry issues.

Before rebooting, I had run lilo which returned an error message. The
error message related to the fact that some of the entries in lilo.conf
had gone stale, in the sense that the kernels they referenced no longer
existed (they had been removed).

I fixed the lilo.conf problem, but forgot to re-run lilo. When I
rebooted, the boot process stopped at "LI".

So: your problem may be solved by simply re-running lilo. That is what
it took me to rectify the situation. Note though that this is not
straightforward:

- boot from a floppy, probably into a rescue image (I'm using RedHat)
- chroot to your root partition
- run lilo
- reboot

I haven't tried it any other way, but I expect that lilo must be run
with all of the file systems in the same places as where they are when
your system is up & running (hence the chroot).

Hope this helps.

Jan