I'm still a bit puzzle about this "LI" & freeze on bootup instead of LILO BOOT. This
is on a lin/win box dual boot using lilo...
It just happened for the second time and I can't figure out why. I had to boot with a
floppy and reinstall LILO. But before it was
done installing lilo, it stopped with an error of "Partition entry not found". To fix
lilo.conf , I had to change label=windows to
label=dos because my hda1 fat32 is labeled "dos". Here's where I'm confused:
Why did lilo work with the old lilo.conf and then suddenly not work and freeze on
bootup? And then, why did it work okay after I
reinstalled lilo with the correct "label" entry in lilo.conf? What caused lilo to
suddenly decide not to accept the "label" entry
for hda1 in the old lilo.conf?
Seve
-----Original Message-----
From: Kennedy D. Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, February 25, 2000 11:40 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] People who get LI at boot up rather than LILO BOOT:
>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?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>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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