User login hangs system

[Aaron Grewell]

>
> Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for
> device 0x81    Kernel: 62749 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
>       BIOS: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
>
> Lilo still finishes and I'm still able to boot into my gentoo and
> libranet system.
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Did you repartition before installing Gentoo?  It shouldn't matter, but if 
your old partition table from the previous OS install used a different drive 
geometry (due to changes in BIOS or kernel) than the new one you would have 
strange behaviour.  I have had this happen once with a drive I transplanted 
from an ancient machine to a new one without repartitioning.  That's not what 
the error indicates, but it might be worth looking into.