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Re: Lilo problem



I don't know if this is the best way to do it, but I
always make a little 35MB /boot partition - first
thing.  I don't think LILO will boot a partition that
goes beyond the 1024 cylinders.

--- Steve Reindl <sreindl@home.com> wrote:
> OK. I've tried to figure this out but have
> determined that I need help. Here's the scenario. I
> recently burned up my 2GB harddisk in my ThinkPad
> 560E. Had SuSE 6.4 working fine. I bought a new
> Fujitsu 12GB harddisk and installed it. Because of
> the BIOS limitations only 8.4GB are available.
> (Don't really know yet but I assume this to be so).
> After rawwriting a bunch of boot images to floppy
> finally found the magic combination to get my IDE
> PCMCIA CD to work for an install of Seawolf. After
> several hours hand configuring XF86Config I finally
> have X working without flickering and at 16bpp
> 800X600. Now to the problem I just can't seem to
> resolve. When I try to boot from the HD I get "L". I
> know I read what this means somewhere but in my vast
> library I can't find it again. I've tried
> 
> /sbin/lilo
> /sbin/lilo -P fix
> 
> and I always get
> 
> linux added   *
> 
> reboot and I get "L". Boots fine from the boot
> floppy made at the end of the install but this is
> not a good choice because the floppy on the TP 560
> is external and rather cumbersome to carry around to
> boot from. Can anyone help me with this. I think it
> has something to do with not being able to find
> /boot/boot.b or the map file or there is something
> corrupt or incorrect in one of these files but I
> just don't remember. I know that "LI" means it can't
> find the second loader but what the @&%# does "L"
> mean. Maybe I need to tinker with the drive geometry
> or something.
> 
> Anyway, help!
> 
> 
> ___________________________________________
> Stephen D. Reindl
> 
> 


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