Re: LI but no LO (contd.)

1998-12-14 Thread Chris Evans
My problem is that booting from the hard disc gets LI but not LO, i.e. LILO isn't mounting linux. Two people (many thanks) suggested I instruct lilo to use linear addressing either by using the lilo -l option or putting "linear" into /etc/lilo.conf. This sounds very promising but I think the

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-12 Thread Adam Shand
> Now booting shows lilo getting through "LI" but then nothing. I > assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not > sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it. I found > one report of something similar in the archives but no answer there. i'm not sure if

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread joseph evan porter
> > I had to change the SCSI controller on my home Debian machine > (had to cannibalise the Dawicontrol NCR chip card to use it on > another machine urgently). I found I couldn't get the same and put > in an Adaptec 2940U. The Adaptec shows me all the devices on > the chain correctly. I've

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 01:35:52PM -, Chris Evans wrote: Hi Chris [..] > Now booting shows lilo getting through "LI" but then nothing. I > assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not > sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it. I found > one repor

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Now booting shows lilo getting through "LI" but then nothing. I > assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not > sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it. I found > one report of something similar in the archives but no answer there. In the lilo ma

LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread Chris Evans
I had to change the SCSI controller on my home Debian machine (had to cannibalise the Dawicontrol NCR chip card to use it on another machine urgently). I found I couldn't get the same and put in an Adaptec 2940U. The Adaptec shows me all the devices on the chain correctly. I've told its bios