Roger C. Scudder Jr. on Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:31:44 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] A question about installing Linux


On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote:

> According to the ``book'' Li indicates that the first stage of the boot
> loader was able to load the second stage of the boot loader but was not
> able to execute it. This is caused by either a geometry mismatch or by
> moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer.

Another possible solution to the LI message problem is to add
the linear option to lilo.conf.  It worked for me when I was
setting up a 8.4GB IDE drive using LBA mode.  I believe this 
would come under the heading, "geometry mismatch".


Roger Scudder


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