[plug] LILO

alan howard alanh at wn.com.au
Mon Jul 23 19:25:26 WST 2001


i've had this b4 on old bioses. its caused by your boot or / partition being 
above the 1024 cylinder. you will need to creat a /boot partition below the 
1024 cylinder.
rgds
alan howard



On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:48, Lathiat wrote:
> LILO really annoys me, it never works right damnit
>
> Atm on my box i built the otherday (a 486 mess around machine) it goes LI
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 (etc.
> etc...)
>
> Any ideas? Ive reinstalled LILO but the same, im having to use a boot disk
> atm
>
> Im using Debiab2.2r2potato
>
> Oh and I thoroughly recommend APC Linux procketbook & sequel for newbies
> (it also gets ur RH7,Mandrake7 and Debian2.2r2 for $40 and updats plus a
> good guide including your own kernels and stuff



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