Subject: Re: LILO
From: Fielder George Dowding (fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.net)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 12:40:34 AKST
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:08:48 -0900
Adam Elkins <LinuxRobot@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> What would make lilo only get to LI? I knew I should have booted
> from floppy...
>
> Adam
>
Greetings Adam and everybody.
My experience with Lilo on this point is I have the wrong disk
parameters set in the bios. For example, I have used one box (with
mobo of course) to install a distro, then I move the hd to another
box (that does not have a cd-rom drive). I have to make sure the
disk parameters are the same in the new environment as they were in
the original environment.
Some old mobo's can't do LBA so I usually use the linear setting
even though the mobo can't see the whole disk. I make sure root "/"
and /boot are within the first 1024 cylinders on these old mobo's.
At 512 kB per cylinder, this boils down to the first 512 MB. This is
plenty of space for root "/" and /boot given I mount /usr, /var,
/home, and whatever I may have dreamed up from partitions in the
higher numberd cylinders (including the extended partition).
My suggestion is to futz around with the disk parameters until you
can boot.
Cheerio! fgd
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