>       This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the 
> floppy, looked
>       at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all teh correct setings for my confg as 
> dar as I
>       can tell), and ran lilo just on general principles.
> 
>       I alos watched the boot messages, and went back and set the corrrect 
> disk
>       paramters in the BIOS by hand (39813/16/63).
> 
>       If I try to boot from the hard didk, I get the following:
> 
> L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 ............ and it continures till i hit the 
> power
> swithc.
> 
> More sugestions?
> 

>From /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt:

Disk error codes
- - - - - - - -

If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the 
respective error code is displayed. The following BIOS error codes are 
known:

...

0x40   "Seek failure". This might be a media problem. Try booting again. 

-- 
David Raeker-Jordan
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Harrisburg, PA, USA

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