Re: LI but no LO

[joseph evan porter <jeport0@ewl.uky.edu>]

> 
> I had to change the SCSI controller on my home Debian machine 
> (had to cannibalise the Dawicontrol NCR chip card to use it on 
> another machine urgently).  I found I couldn't get the same and put 
> in an Adaptec 2940U.  The Adaptec shows me all the devices on 
> the chain correctly.  I've told its bios not to do translation and to 
> boot from device 0 (correct place, an oldish IBM 1Gb drive).
> 
> Now booting shows lilo getting through "LI" but then nothing.  I 
> assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not 
> sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it.  I found 
> one report of something similar in the archives but no answer there.
> 
We had the same problem here with a big drive on an older bios.  Setting
the linear option in lilo.conf delays the disk geometry translation that
linux usually performs.  For us that solved the problem.  Don't forget to
run /sbin/lilo after you change lilo.conf.

Hope that helps,
Joe P.