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twright@tgw.apana.org.au (Todd Wright) wrote:
>-*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.
>

This 'LI' stuff can also come from one of the following 
reasons:

1.  The kernel that you have installed for LILO has been 
corrupted.

2.  You have changed your BIOS settings and they are no longer 
compatible with LILO.  E.g., you might have played with the 
wait states in your RAM and made it slightly unstable...

3.  You have wiped your linux partition but forgot to run fdisk 
/mbr.

4.  The mbr on your disk is corrupt (sort of like 1.)

5.  Or the disk geometry is wrong, as it was suggested...

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