my problems with lilo

this is my problem with lilo, upon booting the system prints on the screen:

LILO
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~^?boot:

if i hit `enter`, or write `Linux`; it prints:

Loading Linux...........

but it hangs there, it doesn`t happen anyting else.
the system is well, i can boot with a start diskette without any problem.
any advice is welcomed, as i said, i can boot the system, but i sincerely don`t understand/remeber what might i have done to lilo to start working this way.

ps: all the chars that i posted are relative, but i hope you`ll get the idea...

Since I'm not a big LILO user, I'm only shooting from the hip, but. Since the full LILO word is echoed back to you without and error codes, I think there is nothing wrong with LILO, and it thinks it's loading /mvlinuz. For whatever reason, the kernel may have become corrupt and causing you problems, or your /etc/lilo.conf may contain some incorrect info. I'd check lilo.conf first. If everything looks good with that, I'd try to replace /vmlinuz with a new copy. And maybe someone may have other ideas. Hope this helps. -mk

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If it ain't broke, fix it till it is.

thanks mike, i`ve already checked the lilo.conf, and found nothing strange.
i`ll replace the vmlinuz image that i have in my hd for the one on my floppy. let you know how it turns out.

i`ve tried to replace the kernel image for the one on the diskette, but, after copying it into the hd, i did a cksum on both files, and they were *exactly* the same...
therefore, i was in total dispair... what i did, was to re-run /sbin/lilo, after changing some parameters in /etc/lilo.conf -innocent stuff, like changing the verbose level, and the timeout limit-, did a reboot, and everything went well... that means, i can boot from the lilo *inside* the hd, i don`t need the floppy whatsoever.
i really don`t understand what might had happened. if somebody has a clue, please tell me.