Re: Boot problems

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From: Eric Moors
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:50

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Lewis Barclay wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to setup an old PC I have as a router / firewall running
> Mandrake Linux 9.0. The machine is an old Dell Optiple Gxa, with a 1.6Gb
> HDD and 233Mhz Pentium2. THe hard disk came from another PC but was all
> working when installed (running win98) I removed all partitions before
> running the Mandrake setup ...
> 
> I  ran the complete installation and re-booted and all that happens when
> the machine restarts is immediately after BIOS the screen writes the
> following to screen 'L 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09
> 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 ...' (except a few more 09's!).
> 
> After some investigation it appeared that the issue I had was with the
> LILO boot loader so I replaced it using the repair disk and rescue mode
> but I get exactly the same results.
> 
> Can anyone help please!
> 
> Im fairly new to linux so could do with some easy to follow advice!
> 

According to lilo's documentation:

   0x09   "DMA attempt across 64k boundary". This shouldn't happen. Try
    omitting the COMPACT option.

Eric

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