Re: Lilo problem

[Gary <medman@mcleodusa.net>]

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:58:09AM -0700 or thereabouts, Robert Threet wrote:
> 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.

Yes, the new LILO does go beyond the 1024 limit.  There is a switch now
that you add, mbr something in the listing.  I have forgotten it as I use
GRUB, actually have 4 OSs working off of it on 2 HDs.  Might want to check
out, or do a search on google, or SuSE, for specific update references. 

-- 
Best regards,
Gary             

> --- 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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