Hoyt,
Thanks for the response. i just posted a response to few guys who responded
to my posting. Check it out if you can. I am interested in trying this
/boot option. However, regarding the boot floppy, the boot disk created
during the install also hangs on 'LI', just as the IDE drive does. Linear
mode results in a screen full of scrolling '1's and '0's ( at least it
doesn't hang at 'LI'!!!)
Does this give you any clues. Please let me know if you need more info.
Thanks,
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] LILO hangs at 'LI' on 9GB IDE drive on Mandrake 6.1,
but works fine on 6.0
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 8:46 PM
>Subject: Re: [expert] LILO hangs at 'LI' on 9GB IDE drive on Mandrake 6.1,
>but works fine on 6.0
>
>
>> Tim @ Home wrote:
>> >
>> > Folks,
>> > Can anyone illuminate this one? I have tried all kinds of parameters
>for
>> > lilo to no avail. I am quite stuck.
>>
>> Two things: (1) did you rerun LILO after installing 6.1? (2) is the
>> kernel below 1024 cylinders?
>>
>
>If you have a very large disk, the disk translation can place the kernel
>above the 1024 cylinder limit of lilo, giving this problem.
>
>One solution is to create a 10MB partition at the beginning of the drive
and
>make it /boot.
>
>Can you boot from the boot disk? Using the linear option?
>
>If you can boot from the boot disk:
>
>After you log in,
>
>chroot /
>
>Then,
>
>lilo
>
>Lilo might barf and give you a useful error message.
>
>(I just now did this on a botched Mandrake 5.3 install on a 386.)
>
>Try to boot again if lilo runs successfully.
>
>
>Does anyone know if the chos program in 6.1 gets around this? Any other
>practical methods of booting other than lilo?
>
>
>Have fun,
>Hoyt.
>
>
