Topic: Erro during boot - LI

[axessit]

Had a server I did a whole bunch of updates to to bring up to date from v7.4 to latest 7.5.1, when it rebooted it just showed LI at the command prompt. Had to get out the rescue CD and boot. Found the following post helpful, even though it was v8, it worked.

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,48149.msg238786.html#msg238786

In a nutshell, from rescue boot (I actually used a 7.1 CD - all I could find in a hurry)

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-install /dev/sdb

Rebooted and the system came up cleanly.

Phew!

[byte]

Had a server I did a whole bunch of updates to to bring up to date from v7.4 to latest 7.5.1, when it rebooted it just showed LI at the command prompt.

Strange as SME Server doesn't use LILO as it's boot loader so not quite sure why you had LI appear.  As you corrected SME Server uses Grub as it's boot loader.

Is this a very old install by any chance?

[axessit]

Now that you mention it, I think it was originally (many many years ago) a Red Hat distribution installed by someone else before I took over. I may have installed SME6 on it originally, can't quite remember that far back.