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RE: LILO problem after changing to adaptec 2940U
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Sumpter)
Tue Dec 15 12:31:59 1998
In-Reply-To: <199812150732.HAA22019@hcsmail.hcs.sghms.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 07:26:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Lloyd Sumpter <Lloyd.Sumpter@BCHydro.bc.ca>
To: Chris Evans <C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
You're not running 2.0.36 (especially Redhat 5.2) are you? I had major
problems with this kernel, which were solved by going to a self-compiled 2.0.33
kernel. Redhat says Adaptec 2940UW support in their 5.2 kernel is broken.
On 15-Dec-98 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:
>
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