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Re: LILO problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Feb 15 19:48:16 2001

To: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Alexandre Megretski <ameg@MIT.EDU>, linux-help@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 15 Feb 2001 19:44:13 -0500
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Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU> writes:

> you can boot the system from the floppy disk and then, from a root shell,
> run "/sbin/lilo" to fix the boot-up problem.  Why it breaks this way in
> the first place I don't know, unfortunately.

You might want to try adding

        lba32

as the first line of /etc/lilo.conf before re-running /sbin/lilo.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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