Re: LILO boot problem

2000-06-03 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello >I don't know if it would help you, but I got error 0x01...which was because >I forgot to enable the disk in my BIOS. In fact my error is 0x01, as yours. In my BIOS I too haven't enabled the IDE disk. This hasnt been a problem to Linux so far as it bypasses the BIOS in many cases AFAIK. No

Re: LILO boot problem

2000-06-03 Thread Sven Burgener
>When booting LILO V20 (on other distro), I get "error 0x02". This is Sorry, but the error code should have been "0x01" instead. Apologies. In a README I've found data on error code 0x01: 0x01 "Illegal command". This shouldn't happen, but if it does, it may indicate an attempt to access

LILO boot problem

2000-06-03 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all I have trouble setting up LILO correctly. :-( When booting LILO V20 (on other distro), I get "error 0x02". This is when I try to boot debian potato from a different disk (/dev/hdb) using the other distro's LILO. (Other distro is on /dev/sda) This is what (part of) my config file looks like

Re: LILO boot problem (fixed!)

1996-08-06 Thread Al Youngwerth
Thanks to all that helped me out on this one. Once I entered the BIOS disk parameters it worked great. Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LILO boot problem (still!)

1996-08-06 Thread N. Salwen
You are probably way ahead of me but I remember getting that error under 2 conditions (I think). 1. If the geometry of the disk didn't match its real geometry or the boot partition went past the 1024 sector (although it is supposedly possible to fake out the boot proms according

LILO boot problem (still!)

1996-08-01 Thread Al Youngwerth
After trying everything everyone suggested a couple of weeks ago I gave up and went on vacation. I've been back all week but now I have to deal with it. My problem is this: when booting from the hard disk I get "LI" from LILO and nothing else. I thought that this problem was caused by the fact