On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Kevin Mernick wrote:
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> > Went to boot for the first time, and instead of LILO, I get LI -->
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> > What should I do with the LBA settings?
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> Lilo prints out one letter of its name as it finished a major step of
> booting your computer. When it prints 'LI' and stops, that means it was
> able to load the second stage boot loader, but it couldn't execute it.
> According to the lilo README, this can be caused by a "geometry mismatch."
> Try booting your system off of a rescue disk and running lilo again.
> Hope this helps.
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I had this happen to me after the install. I think my harddrive was set
as "user" and the i switched it to "lba" after the install or maybe it was
the other way around. Try changing that. If not you could use a resue
disk to copy the kernel out of /boot onto a floppy to boot from that.
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