Thanks Daniel, I'll look into this. I'm not sure since I don't know much about how hard drives work, but is the LBA setting just for IDE drive or does it work with SCSI as well. I ask of course because I am having this problem on a my primary SCSI drive (sda I think).
Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Freedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 8:51 PM To: Debian-List Subject: Re: Installing Debian Aaron, Hi. I think this might have to do with the LBA setting (maybe in your bios) of your hard drive. See the following article for common symptoms such as LI (then lockup, rather than LILO then boot). I know you get 'LIL' rather than 'LI', but it's probably worth looking into: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue52/tag/15.html (non-debian specific, but still probably on target) Hope this helps and take care, Daniel On Fri, Apr 06, 2001, Aaron wrote: > I just recently bought a set of debian cd's and am now trying to install > debian on my pc. I have some experience installing Linux using redhat and I > have done some freeBSD installs so I am not totally new to this, but I can't > seem to make this work. > > Every time I do an install and then do the reboot I get LIL at the boot > prompt. So for some reason Lilo is not being installed correctly on the MBR. > When I set up my partitions I have the / partition on sdba1 so I figure that > this should get Lilo installed on the first 1024 cylinders. Maybe not > though. > > The other problem I am now having is that I get a message saying the X > server can't find my mouse. Can someone tell me what tool to use to > configure my mouse? > > Thanks, > > Aaron > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
