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| __LIL-__ | The desriptor table is corrupt. This can be caused by bad disk parameters in the IPCop PC's BIOS.
| __LILO__ | All parts of LILO have been sucessfully loaded.
[1]-excerpted from Werner Almesberger's LILO Users Guide.
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+__Helpful note for those stuck with only "L" appearing on the LILO screen: __
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+This can be caused by a buggy BIOS which does not properly match up BIOS disks with OS disks. This can be fixed by using the __disk__ parameter in /etc/lilo.conf, which when used with the bios keyword allows you to map BIOS disks to Linux disks. For example, I was just able to recover a server where an IDE CD-ROM, /dev/hda, was the primary master and an IDE hard disk, /dev/hdb, was the primary slave, with this entry in /etc/lilo.conf:
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+__disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80__
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+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. :-)
