[This message has also been posted.] On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:30:11 +0200, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On 15 Aug 2001 22:19:21 +0000, bboy boy wrote: >> To whom it may concern, >> >> Whenever I try to instal debian linux 2.2r3 off the cd (bootable) it >> installs the basehurd.tgz archive but then I don't know what to do because >> if I restart the PC then when booting off the hard disk, on the command line >> it just comes up and says >> >> LI >> >> thats it! whats wrong, can you help me to install debian?? >> > > Boot using your rescue disk and then set the root to your appropriate > harddrive partition. Try changing your lilo.conf to comment out lba32 > and try linear in it's place. Thats worked for me. > > --mike >
Or if you do not have lba32 in lilo.conf, try putting it there. If you have a big drive and /boot is above 1024, you might need lba32 instead of linear. If you use lba32, you have to delete linear. Anita
