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Re: LILO spits out L 01 01 01 01 ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Wed Oct 23 11:15:50 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:00:55 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:14:24 -0400
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Matthew Amster-Burton writes:
>Greetings. Sorry if a post got out from my root account--I just wasn't
>thinking.
My reply to that mail bounced...
>I had LILO 17 running on my system for months without a problem. The
>differences now are that Linux is on my new SCSI drive and RH4.0 uses LILO
>19. Help would be very much appreciated.
Your BIOS is incapable of booting of the SCSI drive. (this is a LILO
FAQ, BTW.) You need to make a small partition (~10MB should be fine)
somewhere that the BIOS can reach -- that is, on one of your first
two IDE drives to be sure -- and mount it as /boot/. You will, of
course, need to transfer the contents of /boot/ to that partition
before mounting it there. Then re-run LILO and you will be in
shape.
(Before I get tons of hate mail telling me how stupid I am, let me
point out that not all BIOSes have these restrictions. My home
machine appears to be able to access the first four devices; counting
first all installed IDE devices, and then up the SCSI chain until it
gets to four. However, not all BIOSes have this capability, and
Matthew's aparantly is one of those that doesn't.)
michaelkjohnson
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