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Re: LILO problem after changing to adaptec 2940U

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maxim Surdu)
Tue Dec 15 05:56:17 1998

Date: 	Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:11:46 +0300
To: "Chris Evans" <C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Maxim Surdu <maxim@mas2000.msk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199812150732.HAA22019@hcsmail.hcs.sghms.ac.uk>

As I heard there is two different ways to solve this problem
one to disable DOS > xxxMb translation in SCSI BIOS
another as you wrote to use linear mode in LILO.
As for me I use second one ...

At 07:29 15.12.98 -0000, Chris Evans wrote:
>My problem is that booting from the hard disc gets LI but not LO, 
>i.e. LILO isn't mounting linux.  Two people on debian-user 
>suggested I instruct lilo to use linear addressing either by using the 
>lilo -l option or putting "linear" into /etc/lilo.conf.  This sounds very
>promising but I think the way that changing from a dawicontrol (ncr) 
>to the Adaptec 2940U changes the perceived geometry is more 
>serious than this.  After booting in rescue mode from the 
>resc1440.bin floppy lilo (with or without linear mode) returns:
....skipped.....
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Maxim Surdu
maxim@mas2000.msk.ru
MAS Elektronikhandels GmbH
Moscow
Tel. (7-095) 7378063 (ext) 133
Fax. (7-095) 962-0333.


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