Re: LI instead of LILO:
I have had this problem before and I almost died of fustration before I
fixed ... as with most things the solution was pretty simple. For a start
try using a minimal lilo and requesting the bios to auto detect the hdd at
boot up. If this fails then do the same thing (auto detect) but specify
large, LBA and then normal, in turn ... Large did the trick for me if I
can remember correctly
Let us know how you got on
Regards
Jonathan
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> > I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times
> > on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the
> > expected LILO:
> > What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall?
>
> for me the only thing that has ever caused this (there are almost
> certainly other reasons though) is when i've been playing with bios and
> what type of hard drive it thinks it is.
>
> you'll have to excuse me i'm having a momentary brain fart and can't think
> of the words i want but the bit i mean is at the far right of the bios
> display and the options are "normal", "large" and "LBA" (i think thats
> correct anyway).
>
> your harddrive was possibly formatted with one option and bios is trying
> another. just reboot and change it until it works (remember what it was
> originally set to in case it is something else!!!)
>
> adam.
>
>
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