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| Newer page: | version 12 | Last edited on Saturday, December 4, 2004 8:51:43 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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__disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80__
This may or may not require further tweaking for your setup. All I know is that if I'd seen this option on the web instead of extracting it from a Mandrake /etc/lilo.conf, I'd have saved a day's work. :-)
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+__An additional possibility for those with only "L"__: I had an old Compaq on which I had updated the BIOS but the /boot directory was far into the large hard drive. I wasn't able to tweak the autodetect parameters in BIOS, so I didn't have all the information in how it was set up. I would always get stuck at the "L" screen, though a boot disk (linux root=/dev/hda1) would work fine.
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+In my case I had to comment out Linear in lilo.conf and then execute (capital "L" is important)
+ __lilo -L__
+to set disk access mode to LBA32 (I think this is the default). Once this was written to the MBR (/dev/hda) everything worked fine.
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