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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: Clue to why 0.98.6 won't boot
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.045139.5501@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:51:39 GMT
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- In article <li9p6vINNjeb@ozona.cs.utexas.edu> jefftep@cs.utexas.edu (Jeffrey Grills) writes:
- >> Booting hangs right before the partition table gets
- >> printed to the screen.
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- If you're using a version of LILO older than 0.7, upgrading to 0.7
- will probably solve your problem. There are is an incompatibility
- between 0.98pl6 and possibly also SLS 0.98pl5 and LILO <= 0.6 that
- may cause strange kernel crashes and funny video mode selections.
-
- - Werner
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