Re: lilo NOT WORKING !!

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From: Todd Wright
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:00

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-*Binh*- (u922992@student.canberra.edu.au) wrote:
: > >I am trying to install LILO but keep getting 'LI' and the system hangs.
: > >  I THINK that I have tried most of the installation methods
: > >  outlined in the DRx.LINUX book with no success.
: > >
: > >I can boot from a floppy with no troubles.

: 3] get a later kernel like 1.2.13 ..you have no problem with big hard drive

I used to just get LI when booting off the hard disk (1.7Gb) with 1.2.13
the problem is what the BIOS reports as the disk geometry is not always the
same as the physical geometry of the disk.

Boot up with MS-DOS (any version - on a floppy or whatever) and run dparam.com 
(part of lilo). It will give you the geometry to use in lilo.conf... works like
a charm, and solved my LI problem.

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