[100809] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Beat me with a LILO FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Mon Nov 23 12:35:43 1998
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cc: Brian Anderson <bunicula@mediaone.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:20:42 EST."
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:34:12 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Brian, could you post the output of "fdisk -l" to go with your information?
Suspect you don't have LBA capabilities on that motherboard, and that you're
running into partition/cylinder count problems.
best
rickf
bunicula@mediaone.net said:
> that will answer the following:
> i've hit my first LILO problem... system will boot, and gets to LI
> then hangs. booting off of the floppy made at install time,
> everything works fine. for now the floppy is just a permanent fixture
> in the drive, but that's a bad fix.
> the system: Redhat 5.2, on a 486 DX4 120 (recent PCI 486 motherboard)
> disks: hda 850 meg connor (now seagate) hdb 350 meg connor (now
> seagate)
> hda has a 16 meg partition, the first partition on the drive, for /
> boot
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You'll wonder why your data's lost
When you load your system with MicroSoft...
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