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Re: LILO spits out L 01 01 01 01 ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin Hakkennes)
Wed Oct 23 11:29:01 1996
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:25:18 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: E.Hakkennes@ET.TUDelft.NL (Edwin Hakkennes)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961023075653.5820A-100000@saul3.u.washington.edu> from "Matthew Amster-Burton" at Oct 23, 96 08:00:55 am
From: Edwin Hakkennes <E.Hakkennes@ET.TUDelft.NL>
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>
> Greetings. Sorry if a post got out from my root account--I just wasn't
> thinking. Here's a brief repost as myself.
>
> I got through the install with no problems (thanks, Michael, for taking
> care of the Advansys problem--you are a saint), but after installing LILO
> to my first HD, booting gave me:
>
> L 01 01 01 01 ... ad infinitum, forcing a reboot.
>
> The lilo command gave several messages like "/dev/hdc is set up
> improperly--run MAKEDEV.ide" (not the exact message, but I could pull it
> up if necessary). I ran the script, and it didn't help--LILO crashes on
> boot every time. /dev/hdc is my CD-ROM drive. I installed via FTP.
>
> 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.
>
> Booting off a LILOed diskette and specifying root=/dev/sda1 works fine.
There could also be a problem in translating the addres of the kernel on the
disk. The kernel may use another mapping as you BIOS. To check this, run
lilo -l or use the option linear.
Maybe this will help you.
Good luck
Edwin
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