[plug] Quickie - lilo

[Bevan Broun]

on Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 03:11:53PM +0800, Shackleton, Kevin <kshackleton at agric.wa.gov.au> wrote:
> I just bought a couple of old Digital 486-66 machines - nice boxes but
> everything on the mobo.  Put a 1 GB drive in - would not boot (Lilo stuck
> with "LI").  Re-partitioned so the boot  files are at < 1024 cylinders,
> still "LI".  Any ideas?

I had this problem after moving around some disks of different types in
machines. The soln (in that case) was to get the bios to redetect the
disk and get it's geometry right. I dont deal with PC bios very often
but this one had an auto dectect feature.

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