Re: Old IDE driver and Flashdisks

[Tania Boak]

I have the seen the "LILO hangs after printing LI" problem mentioned in Andries Brouwer's Large Disk HOWTO. Try specifying "linear" in /etc/lilo.conf. Hope it helps. Tania Walter Zimmer wrote: > Hi ! > > We are using JumpTec PCs with IDE Flashdiscs. Other than the > "SeekComplete"-error which we ignore we have made an observation: > > Compiling a kernel with the new IDE driver, we realize that we > can't get lilo to write to the boot sector properly. It just > prints out "LI" at boot time and stops. > > If we use the "old IDE" driver, it works. Perhaps some kernel > guru can enlighten us where there might be the difference > between those IDE drivers ? Does it relate to the > "SeekComplete"-error ? > > Now we have the problem that we have a JumpTec ETX system with > the boot flash disc on hdc (master disc on second IDE). > Since the old IDE driver doesn't recognize the second IDE > controller, we can't get LILO to boot from this disc, it just > says "LI" again (when written with the new driver) :( > > Did anyone else make this observation and found a fix ? Right > now we can't see any possibility to get lilo to boot from hdc... > > Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. > > Walter -- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the message body. For more information, see <http://waste.org/mail/linux-embedded>.