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Actually when the LI pops up it usually means that the /boot part of Linux
is no install within the first 1024 cylinder of the hard drive. Take a
look the docs and it will probably point you on how to fix this. I
personally have a tripe boot system with a 25Gb hard drive and I created a
boot disk instead of LILO due to the fact linux is installed on the last
10Gb which means LILO won't be able to boot to it. This is a normal
problem, but can be fixed with some work and planning.
At 10:45 AM 2/25/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>no I have had that problem and what it was is that you didn't have the
>complete download of the product check the image size and see if it is the
>same as the site size?
>
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>Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 7:04 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] People who get LI at bootup rather than LILO BOOT:
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>This is almost certainly a problem with hard drive geometry. You should
>open up your PC and look at the label glued onto it, and make a
>note of the number of cyliners, heads and sectors. If you want a dual-boot
>machine, and the windows part already works OK, then
>you don't need to mess with the BIOS.
>
>If this is not the case, have a look at the BIOS, and try setting LBA as
>the hard disk addressing mode.
>
>If this still doesn't work, boot linux from a boot floppy, edit
>/etc/lilo.conf and add this line
>
>append = "hd=cyl,hds,sctrs"
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>where cyl is the number of cylinders, hds is the number of heads and sctrs
>is the number of sectors printed on your disk.
>
>You might find the LILO mini HOWTO and the BOOTDISK HOWTO useful,
>
>Steve Flynn
>IBM MVS Operations Analyst
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