David,

I had this same problem.  You most likely have the BIOS set for LBA, try setting it to 
CHS and see if that
works.  It did for me.  I did a completely new install after the change, it does not 
mean you do.  I had wiped the
drive clean because I was not sure what had happened.

Good Luck..

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On 6/16/2000 at 4:35 PM David Williams wrote:

>I upgraded my hard drive recently and when I went to reboot from
>the new drive lilo fails.  It gives me "LI" and hangs.  I've been
>digging through the docs and it says that this could mean a drive
>geometry mismatch.  Makes sense since it is a larger drive.
>Creating a boot disk gives the same results.  I have a boot disk
>from another system boots but it uses an older kernel.  I'm still
>trying to dig through the docs but can anyone tell me how to "fix"
>lilo?
>
>Thanks.
>
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