On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > I have had this problem before and I almost died of fustration before I > fixed ... as with most things the solution was pretty simple. For a start > try using a minimal lilo and requesting the bios to auto detect the hdd at > boot up. If this fails then do the same thing (auto detect) but specify > large, LBA and then normal, in turn ... Large did the trick for me if I > can remember correctly
I reinstalled about 4 times and then I saw your email and the user.tex for lilo and it suddenly clicked that you may be right and you were truly right. I set my drive from normal to AUTO and everything works. The system works beautifully now. This info needs to go on the FAQ of LILO. I wonder how many people gave up just because of this. /-------------------------------------------------------------------/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 1233 /-------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
