Re: lilo does not work!
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:07:02PM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote:
>
> ...stuff...
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> So, as I see it, those of us with the problem are stuck booting from
> floppies unless they've got some other working install, and waiting
> for someone who knows better to figure out what's going on. Joy. :-/
>
> Mike McGuire
Ignore that guy, he doesn't know what he's talking about. ;)
Anyway, a bit more fiddling and it just seems to work now. In the
BIOS, I'm not sure that I actually changed anything, but now it's
either set to use LBA for the drives, or automatically using LBA
anyway. And I've got lba32 in lilo.conf. And I don't think it works
without it.
So, as I see it, lilo's handling of LBA drives/geometry got a little
more strict in the latest version. Maybe. I'm no expert at low-level
HDD functionality. Hopefully, though, somebody will make enough
sense out of this rambling to put it to good use. :)
(In short: try turning on LBA in lilo.conf & the BIOS. yeah.)
Mike McGuire
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