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From: Tim @ Home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] LILO hangs at 'LI' on 9GB IDE drive on Mandrake 6.1,
but works fine on 6.0
>
> Sorry, I can't remember it totally; I am unsure of the initrd line. I
have
> also tried 'linear', 'append="hda=1108,255,63"', and
> 'append="hd=1108,255,63"'
>
IIRC, this should be:
hda=1108,255,63
(or if you could get to the initial lilo prompt,
CHS=1108/255/63
also works.)
If you re-install, you might try giving this as an additional argument to
lilo during the lilo setup routine.
> I do also have a Symbios SCSI in the system, but have tried installing
with
> and without; also, as I said, 6.0 went in without a hitch with SCSI
present.
>
> Steve: As I stated above, i believe the kernel is well below cylinder 1024
> (this area would appear to be occupied by /usr), and Lilo runs itself
during
> installation (though I did re-run it, and even installed a down-rev
version
> of it and re-ran it as well to test with no success). 6.0 boots; 6.1
hangs
> at 'LI'.
>
Sound more and more like a BIOS problem, not a disk problem or a Linux
problem. Is it flash-able? The latest BIOS for the mobo? This may be
something to look at.
Hoyt
