[CLUE-Tech] LILO Boot Problem

[Randy Arabie]

On Thursday, 13 February 2003 at 12:17:12 -0700, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:24:31 -0700
> Randy Arabie <randy at arabie.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, 12 February 2003 at  9:52:29 -0700, Jed S. Baer
> > <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > but it might not have been on that machine. Have your tried booting
> > > the box with those options, or just NORMAL. The whole point of LBA is
> > > that the drive remaps the geometry, in effect reporting something the
> ...
> > Checking the BIOS when I got home revealed that despite the different
> > "appearance" in geometry, the LBA mode did report the proper disk size.
> > So, I switched to LBA mode, modified my lilo.conf, ran the lilo command
> > and rebooted....It Worked!
> 
> Ah, wonderful. Now you don't know whether changing the BIOS setting or
> changing LILO was the operative fix. ;-)

It was the BIOS change, since it wouldn't boot with LILO configured with
either "lba32" or "linear".  IOW, I tried all other options, changing
the BIOS to LBA was the only one I had not tried.

I would assume that having the BIOS set to LBA, but LILO to "linear" is
bad.  But, you know what they say about assumptions....
-- 
Allons Rouler!
        
Randy
http://www.arabie.org/
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