[plug] LILO

Leon Blackwell leon at lostrealm.com
Tue Jul 24 08:24:04 WST 2001


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0800, Lathiat wrote:
> LILO really annoys me, it never works right damnit

Yup... just install grub and get it over with  :)


> 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

I have had this problem with a few computers I've setup -- it's
usually due to a misconfiguration of the harddrive.  Try checking
your BIOS settings to ensure that the drive is set to the correct
mode (LBA, etc).


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