Hi, I had almost the exact same thing happen to me; It had to do with what was master/slave on the ide controller, what was set to boot first in the bios, and adding a line to LILO. If you tell me what is set to boot first in the bios, I might have an idea; David Charles On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, jipe wrote: > > > Joan Tur wrote: > > >Hallo! > > > >I've changed my K6-III-400 for a Gigabyte 7DXR with a Promise controller & > >1200 Athlon. My system is on a scsi hd and ide has to boot first in order > >for win to boot so i've put lilo on hde. > > > >But i get 'LI' on startup. I've checked the mail archive and found no > >sollution for this. Now i'm using a floppy disk to boot. > > > >And what i've tryed is: > >-renaming /dev/hda* to /dev/hda*.bak > >-ln -s /dev/hda /dev/hde (and so on) > >and setting the startup hd to either hda or hde 8? > > > >Any idea?? Thanks!! ;) > > > probably lilo search /boot/boot.b at a wrong place -> edit > /etc/lilo.conf, make changes, then type lilo > if no, it's a problem with the geometry of your disk(s) > > bye > jipe > > >
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