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Am doing an installation on a friend's machine, and am getting the 
LILO hang-on-"LI"-during-boot  problem. The docs say this is a 
"geometry mismatch" but I'm still not sure how to proceed.  I 
wonder if anyone has successfully been through this ...

Setup: 
486/66; 2HD's
Nontranslating BIOS, as far as I know.
/dev/hda is a <500M Connor with DOS only; was there to begin with.
/dev/hdb is a 1280M Connor listed as 2477/16/63. This resulted in
  many warnings from fdisk; so entered 825/48/63 in BIOS. This 
  approach worked fine with my own WD 1.1G HD. 
Made 3 Linux partitions on /dev/hdb; 1st is root partition, 200M.
  Didn't write down the cylinders but I'm sure it doesn't require
  over 1024.
Installed software; no problems.
Can boot off floppy, log in, get prompt, everything looks fine.
Installed lilo in MBR; when I boot off HD it hangs at "LI".
Tried "linear" and reinstall lilo; no go.

I suspect the problem may be the  fake geometry I  gave BIOS,
but on the other  hand fdisk and kernel have no problems with 
it, and it did choke on the 2477/... geometry - lot of complaints 
about logical/physical boundaries etc.

any advice appreciated.

Judah Milgram
milgram@eng.umd.edu