I'm glad to be of help
Jonathan
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:
> 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] .
>
>
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
