[3829] in RedHat Linux List
LILO not booting: the solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fabio Favata)
Mon Nov 11 02:51:51 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 08:49:24 +0100 (MET)
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From: ffavata@estsa2.estec.esa.nl (Fabio Favata)
Cc: vhs@flexdesign.com
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I had written:
> I just installe RedHat 4.0 on my portable, via FTP and a PCMCIA card.
> Everything smooth, except that LILO seems broken. When I try to reboot, I
>just
> get, on the screen, the 2 letters "LI", with the cursor flashing after it.
Thanx for the several suggestions (some private). It was a funny
BIOS problem. My BIOS (SystemSoft BIOS) has a curious setting, called
"Large HDD access mode", which can be set to either "DOS" or "Other"
[operating systems], which the manualy duly says "include Unix". So, I had
naively believed it and set it to "Other". This seems to break LILO. After
setting back to "DOS", LILO now works and the whole thing is OK...
fabio
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