Re: LI (no LO)!

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From: Ned Latham
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00

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David Jenkins wrote in <Yy6P4.5473$PL4.189411@ozemail.com.au>:
> Hmm, I'm fairly new at this Linux thing, in fact I only just installed it. I
> first put it onto a Quantum Bigfoot 1.2GB drive (I know I know). It
> installed fine and booted to the desktop. After a bit of investigation I
> decided that it was worht persuing a bit further but that the Quantum was a
> bit of a liability.
> 
> I re-installed it onto a 4GB IBM DHEA drive but upon reboot it hangs at LI.
> 
> I have repeated the installation twice with the same results both times. The
> install on the Quantum drive still works fine if I substitute the drives.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what is going on????

Did you install LILO to the Master Boot Record? LI happened to me once
when I installed LILO to the Boot Sector of the root partition (I did
a reinstall to cure it).

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