unbootable hard disk

Kerry Hoath kerry at gotss.net
Sat Jan 18 12:14:55 EST 2003


Some bioses do not correctly implement lba32.
Perhapse it is best ot keep your boot partition below the 8.4gb mark and ommit the
lba32 option. Just put your kernels
and lilo stuff in /boot and keep it below cylinder 1024.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 09:51:35AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> I am not sure I did that, but I made some edited changes to
> /etc/lilo.conf to set lba32, define an alias, set the timeout and
> specify a boot message, and then ran lilo. It installed without
> error.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Alex Snow wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > Have you tried rerunning liloconfig after you finish booting from the
> > floppy?
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