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- From: n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: lilo problems
- Summary: lilo works with SCSI
- Keywords: lilo, SCSI
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.004958.25402@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 00:49:58 GMT
- References: <C-AMB.92Sep4101434@solitude.math.utah.edu> <JUH.92Sep5001557@lazy.qt.IPA.FhG.de> <1992Sep6.155231.23223@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Sender: n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor)
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- Organization: Texas A&M University
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- In article <1992Sep6.155231.23223@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
- >In article <JUH.92Sep5001557@lazy.qt.IPA.FhG.de> juh@qt.IPA.FhG.de (Juergen Henke) writes:
- >>>>>>> On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:14:34 GMT, c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston) said:
- >>
- >>
- >>Mark> No, you are doing everything as expected. It's just that you
- >>Mark> need this patch for lilo to work correctly with 0.97p2.
- >>
- >>
- >>I've tried to install lilo.4 on my home system (486/33/16/AHA1542B), but
- >>the only response i get is an 'L'. I've tried lilo with the original MBR,
- >>with the BOOTAUTO-MBR and with lilo as the MBR: every time lilo steps in,
- >>i get this 'L' and the system hangs...
- >>
- >>On my linux system in the office (486/25/16/AHA1542B) lilo works fine...
- >
- >Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the AHA1542B a SCSI controller?
- >Doesn't the LILO documentation state that it doesn't work with SCSI?
- >
-
- Lilo does work with SCSI. I have been using lilo since version 2 with
- my UltraStor 14f with no problems. I am now using lilo version 3, which
- works with SCSI "out of the box" (I had to modify geometry.c in v.2); I
- would expect version 4 to work even better.
-
- >--
- >Jim H.
- >*
- >* James L. Henrickson
- >* ujlh@sunyit.edu "Some day I might have a real .signature!"
-
- Scott Taylor
- n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu
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