Quoting Chris Jenks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I can sure sympathize. I just got through "playing" with my Dad's > system, with Debian on the primary master and WinXP on the secondary > master. He is leery of getting stuck in Linux, so being unable to boot > Linux for several months didn't help! The symptoms were, using a recent > install of Sarge from CD, that grub would repeat "GRUB GRUB ...", or LILO > would give "L 99 99..." or "L 02 02..." depending on whether I reran lilo. > The fix was to go into the bios and change the setting for the primary > master (containing Linux) from "auto" to "user", which caused the setting > for the number of heads for the disk to change from 16 (I think) to 255, > and reduced the number of clusters. This allowed Debian to boot, but > Windows would hang. I had to remap the drives in lilo.conf to get Windows > to boot properly.
You can alternatively provide the drive geometry settings explicitly in a lilo.conf "append=" directive. ...while, of course, also sacrificing a chicken to the insane gods of ATA. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
