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- From: dosburn@cwis.unomaha.edu (Don Osburn)
- Subject: Re: LILO HELP PLEASE
- Message-ID: <dosburn.726863273@cwis>
- Keywords: lilo
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:27:53 GMT
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- dosburn@cwis.unomaha.edu (Don Osburn) writes:
-
- >I am having serious difficulties with lilo and need help. I am not
- >experienced at all with this, and I really can not seem to figure out
- >what is going on / wrong even though I have read all the documentation.
- >I currently have BootManager, and OS/2, and Linux installed with
- >everything working except to boot linux I must use a floppy. The linux
- >I am using is the SLS version. (I downloaded SLS a, b, and c and
- >installed.) I have been trying to use the lilo version that came with
- >the SLS to get linux to boot from the hard drive under BootManager. It
- >seems to run ok, but when I boot to it, I get "LILO loading......" and
- >then it appears to start to boot normally. It reports on lpt1, etc,
- >then I get a kernal panic saying it cannot handle swap request at such
- >and such a place. After trying all kinds of things in vain, I removed
- >the version of lilo I had installed, and went to tsx-11.mit.edu to get
- >lilo.8.tar.Z. I did all the make s to get this version ready, and then
- >tried to run it using
-
- >/# /etc/lilo/lilo -b /dev/hda1 -i /etc/lilo/boot.b -v -v -v /Image
-
- >and now it tells me:
-
- >DEVICE 0X0301: MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CYLINDERS IS 1023, NOT 1024.
-
- >I have no idea what this means. Although the documentation for lilo is
- >very nice, I can not for the life of me figure out what the heck is
- >going on. Can some kind soul take my hand and walk me through this?
- >Thanks in advance.
-
- I finally got this to work, but am still not sure what is going on.
- Thanks to all who helped. I posted another article, "LILO can't find
- kernal ?" telling what I had to do. Thanks again.
- Don
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