[plug] Strange stuff with antique hardware

[David Buddrige]

whenever I've hat the LI message, it's always been an incorrectly configured
lilo.conf....

regards

David Buddrige
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Campbell [SMTP:campbell at torque.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 19, 1998 9:24 PM
> To:	plug at linux.org.au
> Subject:	[plug] Strange stuff with antique hardware
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the following:
> 
> a) Debian floppy taking 3 mintues to load a kernel
> b) LILO fails at "LI", even with "linear" option
> 
> This is for the old 33DX486 I mention earlier. I am about to try another 
> mainboard and a different IO card (to solve the floppy problem).
> 
> I configured the HDD on a P166, transplanted the drive and kept the same 
> HDD settings. I can boot into Linux with the "rescue" floppy and poke
> around 
> but with such a slow boot time it is a pain.
> 
> According to the docs the "LI" failure is either bad disk geometry or
> moving 
> the boot.b file. I know that I haven't touched boot.b so there is
> something 
> strange going on here.
> 
> David Campbell
> 
> 
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> 
> "There is no such thing as a bug in the Linux 2.1.x kernels
> Consider it as a request from the enlightened for you to brush
> up on your C programming and help improve the kernel."