On Sat Feb 24 00:06:54 2001 David Raeker-Jordan wrote...
>
>>      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. 
>

        Interesting, I notice, that even though I have entered the correct drive
        geometry in the BISO, whn I can boot (from the floppy) I get a message 
about
        ignoring the bad geometry from the BIOS, and indeed the numbers 
printede there
        make no sense.

        Sugestions?

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