Re: making a boot disk
I have exactly the same problem in wanting to make a boot disk and get the
same error message as you. Have you managed to solve the problem yet. Please
let me know if you have a solution to this problem.
Sorry I cant help you.
All the best jm
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 10:22:03AM -0500, D-Man wrote:
>
> Is that 'lba32' option supposed to allow booting a kernel that is
> located after the 1024th cylinder? I always thought that was a BIOS
> limitation, not a LILO one.
>
> I can't use LILO for booting anyways because my BIOS doesn't allow
> booting off the second IDE bus. LILO hangs at "LI" when booting.
>
> As I said before, I have loadlin set up for normal boots off the
> harddisk. Now I want to make a boot floppy I can use if my system
> goes bad for some reason.
>
> -D
>
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:48:42PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote:
> <snip>
> |
> | A boot disk is one way to go. You might also try adding 'lba32' to the
> | top of your lilo.conf.
> |
> | Assuming a recent enough LILO, you shouldn't get that error. I use
> | lilo-21.6.1, installed to its own directory(/temp/lilo), and I've but
> | 'lilo' on hold as far as apt and dpkg are concerned.
> |
> | Dave
>
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