Differences between version 14 and predecessor to the previous major change of LiloErrorCodes.
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| Newer page: | version 14 | Last edited on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:48:39 pm | by JwDeBleser | Revert |
| Older page: | version 13 | Last edited on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:48:23 pm | by VeraHansper | Revert |
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__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.
It would be helpful to note that users with older hardware, who encounter the L 99 99 99 99 ... error, that adding "linear" in lilo.conf may solve the problem. (It did for me!)
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+There is a significant amount of conflicting information about error code 99. It appears to be associated with a BIOS disk error - mismatch of geometry, read failure, or something like that. According to the lilo man page, 99 indicates "invalid second stage index sector" and is usually associated with a bad map file or a geometry mismatch between lilo and the BIOS.
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+What solved it for me was moving lilo to the MBR instead of the first sector of the disk.
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