Re: LI problem.

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From: Spud
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:00

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You need to add a line to your /etc/lilo.conf:
linear
Just that one word. The different letters of LILO stand for things, and LI
means there is a disk geometry error.
>I am currently installing Redhat 5.2 on a 486DX2/33, everything has
>installed fine - but when it tries to boot off the hardrive it hangs at
>where the LILO: prompt should be at LI
>
>If I boot off the install floppy and enter vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
>read-only at the boot: prompt, it boots off the hardrive fine.
>
>Any reccomendations on how to fix this? It's only a 520mb drive (485
>extended partition, and 32mb swap) so I doubt it suffers from the
>too-many-cylenders problem.
>
>The other thing is, this machine only has 10mb of physical RAM - but this
>shouldn't be a problem?
>
>--
>dagger
><mailto:dagger@bayside.net>
>(Too much blood in my caffeine system...)

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Subject: Re: LI problem.
Date: 1999/04/20
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