On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 01:29, Michael wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:19 am, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> > just for fun, edit your lilo.conf so the "append" line
> > looks like this:
> >
> > append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma"
> >
> >
> > then, in the command line, run `lilo`, and reboot. See if it
> > keeps crashing.
> >
> 
> btw, i've been trying to run that command.  i open up a terminal, su -, 
> password, then type "append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off 
> ide1=nodma", then hit enter, then type "lilo", and a bunch of stuff comes up 
> that pretty much tells me it's rewriting all the append lines in the lilo 
> directory, then i reboot, and nothing in the illo directory has changed.  
> what am i doing wrong?

You're supposed to manually edit the /etc/lilo.conf file and add the
"append" line (or modify the existing one) with those params then run
lilo.

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