Re: Floppy boot

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

Sounds like your drive is set to non-lba mode in the bios, or is set to
normal when it should be lba.. or something ;). Go to your bios, change
the hd params - there should be a 'mode', or something similar, play
around with that 'til it works!

Cheers,
Alex.

On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ian Wright wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm struggling to get linux up and running on a computer and every time I
> try I get Lilo failing at the LI bit. I have found a tutorial on the net
> which says this is quite a common problem with some of the newer hard drives
> and recommends fixing it by inserting the line 'linear' into lilo.conf.
> Fine, but how do I get at lilo.conf on the hard disk if I am booting from a
> floppy? I tried to 'mount /dev/hda' as a first guess but the floppy linux
> said that it couldn't find it in fstab. Help!!!
> 
> Ian
> 
> --
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield  UK
> 
> 
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