What are some of the problems associated with Disk Geometry? and what are
the fixes? Can someone explain this to me?
Justin
> Stopping at LI usually means a problem with disk geometry. But it can also
> simply mean that when Slackware installed LILO, it did it wrong (from long
> personal experience, I know the Slackware setup scripts are a bit short of
> bulletproof). So before you do anything fancy, just try reruning lilo from
> the command line and see if a fresh install fixes things.
>
> If not, next step involves detail about your hard drive, so follow up with
> that. Also include a copy of /etc/lilo.conf .
>
> At 06:49 PM 3/11/99 -0500, Thomas Olenio wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>Just installed Slackware 3.2 and the installation went
>>great, with one minor snag (at least I hope it is minor).
>>
>>When booting from the hard drive LILO hangs when it gets to
>>the "LI". Now during installation I made a LILO bootable
>>disk and that boots perfectly.
>>
>>Any help in getting my machine to boot properly from the
>>hard drive would be appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>Tom
>>
>>
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