Re: lilo NOT WORKING !!

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From: Paul Power UGCF
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00

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Darren Moore (dm048@svco4.seqeb.gov.au) wrote:
: Is this a 'Geometry Mismatch' ?
: Could this be causing my problems ?
: Does this have something to do with using "BIG IDE" drives ?
: How do I rectify the situation ?

: Darren.

I had another shot at LILO last night, I was getting the same LI crash. I
put linear in the global part of the /etc/lilo.conf file and voila !! LILO
booted like a charm. I don't have a clue what linear does but I sorta
remembered that it has something to do with disk geometry. 

All I've got to do now is get it to recognise my soundblaster, other drive
and then get X to work on my Mach64 :( 

It beats the hell out of a nice shrink wrapped windoze installation.

Hope that helps,

Paul

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Subject: Re: lilo NOT WORKING !!
Date: 1996/01/31
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