[TriLUG] Bootloader woes

[Jon Carnes]

If "LILO shows on the screen then it's working fine. If the kernel boots
after a time, then my guess would be that the screen or video can't
handle the level of resolution you are attempting to show. 

As I recall, you should be able to tweak LILO so that it uses different
video output for the menuing.

Good Luck

BTW: what distribution are you using?

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 10:25, bdsmith2 at ncsu.edu wrote:
> Triangle Linux Users,
>     Both Lilo and GRUB have been acting up on my machine; neither one will
> display a boot menu or accept user input. After the BIOS does its
> thing, the words LILO 22.2 display on the screen, and the default
> kernel is after the set time period. Thinking that this might be an
> issue with the on board video (the machine is an old HP Pavilion I
> salvaged from the attic), I threw in a PCI Geforce 2 and disabled the
> on board video, but to no avail. /boot is on the first partition of
> the hard drive, and I can't think of anything else that might be
> contributing to the problem.
> 
> Thanks a ton.