In article <00030702005100.00580@Vagabond>,
Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote:
[snip]
> > except the strong knowledge, that the SystemSoft BIOS is crap. A
> > friend of mine had yet another idea what may be breaking
> > everything. But that would be even more heavy than my suspicions:
> > The BIOS doesn't look at the MBR at all ("there's only one MBR
> > around anyway"), but directly boots the partition marked as active.
> > And this is only done, when this bootsector "looks" good (where
> > "looks" = "some stupid test").
> >
> Hummm, I guess it's a possibility, but like everything else at this
> point, without further indepth BIOS knowledge (which your not likely
> to get out of SystemSoft or ?Innysys? [ I forgot the name they handed
> it off to ] ),
It's Insyde!
> it's just grasping at straws. I did a lot of looking around the web
> and found a few people running Linux on Gericom 1100ATs, but no one
> running 1100MT and no one having in similar problems.
A person running Linux on a Gericom as well has contacted me now and
told me that Chos works, though LILO doesn't. I've tried it now, and
indeed, Chos boots perfectly from the MBR, whereas LILO doesn't.
Problem not solved, but worked around in a way I can live with! :-)
Thanks for all your help. :-)
Fact remains: LILO doesn't work. So I'll send this to the author of
LILO as well. It /is/ a bug (or at least a feature) in LILO, if Chos
can manage it!
Greetings,
Stefan.
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