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Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!



On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:34:24PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> 
> 	This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the floppy, looked
> 	at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all the correct settings for my config as dar as I
> 	can tell), and ran lilo just on general principles.
> 
> 	I also watched the boot messages, and went back and set the correct disk
> 	parameters in the BIOS by hand (39813/16/63).
> 
> 	If I try to boot from the hard disk, I get the following:
> 
> L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 ............ and it continues till i hit the power
> switch.
> 
> More suggestions?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stan Brown     stanb@awod.com                                    843-745-3154
> Charleston SC.
> 
Hi,

I know you aren't going to want to hear this, and I'm sure there must be a
better way. But...

I recently installed Debian 2.2r0 on a 486 I have around here and the exact
same thing happened to me. I couldn't get any answers that worked, so what I
ended up doing is going back, and with cfdisk deleted everything from the
disk, re-partitioned, then re-installed. Since then it's worked fine.
Originally I installed using partitions I had set up from a SuSE install.

As I said, I'm sure there's a better way, but that's what worked for me.

-- 
  >Lute<
     Hey! It happens. Well it does...



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