LI basically means that when the lilo boot was created it located the
disk addresses of the specified files but something has changed and
it will not be successfull.
I like GRUB with a small dos system on from that can be used to do
all sorts of stuff. Lilo works too. But you must make a boot disk.
Then redo the lilo with /etc/lilo.conf.
The same thing happened to me today but the boot disk saved me.
Then I redid lilo and was ok.
Norman
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> This is almost certainly a problem with hard drive geometry. You should
> open up your PC and look at the label glued onto it, and make a
> note of the number of cyliners, heads and sectors. If you want a dual-boot
> machine, and the windows part already works OK, then
> you don't need to mess with the BIOS.
>
> If this is not the case, have a look at the BIOS, and try setting LBA as
> the hard disk addressing mode.
>
> If this still doesn't work, boot linux from a boot floppy, edit
> /etc/lilo.conf and add this line
>
> append = "hd=cyl,hds,sctrs"
>
> where cyl is the number of cylinders, hds is the number of heads and sctrs
> is the number of sectors printed on your disk.
>
> You might find the LILO mini HOWTO and the BOOTDISK HOWTO useful,
>
> Steve Flynn
> IBM MVS Operations Analyst
>
>
>
