I have an older American Megatrends 1994 rev BIOS and I recently put in an IBM IDE 20Gig drive as my master drive....I haven't done anything to reconfigure my BIOS since it is old and DOES work with just linux kernels (I have some newer equipment on which the settings below work flawlessly)
I have the entry -------------lilo.conf---------------- lba32 boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map delay=20 vga=normal <linux image stuff> other=/dev/hda2 table=/dev/hda label=freebsd where /dev/hda2 is the bsd parition created by the install... this kind of setup seems to work on newer equipment. Reading the docs on lilo says this is a BIOS error suggesting media problems... Is there some special incantations that I have to feed lilo specially if it has problems communicating with the BIOS... NOTE: I can run linux with NO difficulty. I just can't get freebsd to boot...maybe someone is trying to tell me something ;-) -walter