On Wed 23 Feb 05, 8:42 AM, Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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. ...while chanting "ATA Akbar!"
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