The heck of it is, my computer (except for THAT harddrive) is ~6 months old.
The BIOS was always recognizing it correctly, but Windows couldn't see the
drive without EZ-Bios (I'm not using EZ-Boot). With EZ-Bios, it is reversed
and I am really tempted to let sleeping dogs lie (I've reinstalled too many
operating systems too many times). And not get a WDC again.
The only time that I've gotten the "LI" error message is when I reformatted
the linux partitions without removing LILO. Bad idea.
-Andrew Vick
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
>I've had experience with EZ-Boot before helping my friend upgrade his hard
>drive. And this was basically the one bug I couldn't fix. For some
>reason, the HD would never get detected *correctly* the first time and
>required a reboot. He was running Windows, so I believe at least Andrew's
>problem is the EZ-Boot. So I'm guessing that you have a mobo that's too
>old to support the large HD? Generally, my past experience have been that
>if LILO starts displaying numbers, it's usally the case that the HD wasn't
>detected correctly. If the problem was with LILO itself, the usualy
>symptom would be it getting stuck at "LI"
>
>On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Andrew Vick wrote:
>
>> I've been getting the same error message from LILO: "L 01 01 01..."
>>
>> I've been getting around it by rebooting. When I turn on my computer, the
>> first thing I do is Ctrl-Alt-Del. When the computer reboots, LILO runs
>> without problem. To me the error only happens the first time I boot up my
>> computer after it has been turned off.
>>
>> I have not figured out any solution beyound the three-fingered salute, I
have
>> a suspicion that it is caused by my harddrive. Do you, like I, have a
large
>> WDCaviar drive with EZ-Boot or their more modern DataLifeguard? I have no
>> direct evidence that the drive (it is the second drive on my computer) is
the
>> problem, but (I suspect) it was causing boot trouble even before I
installed
>> Mandrake (I had/have Win98) causing the computer to freeze when Windows was
>> booting.
>>
>> My little anecdote.
>>
>> -Andrew Vick
>>
>> >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
>> >Dev,
>> >I had a similar problem with LILO on many distributions of Linux. I will
>> >tell you how I overcame the problem and hopefully you will be able to
>> >apply it to your system.
>> >When I did my install of Mandake 7.0-2 I was fortunate enough for it to
>> >tell me it LILO wouldn't like being installed installed on my HD with my
>> >Linux partition so far back, so what you have is a few options open to
you.
>> >If you do what I did, you can install Linux on your first partiton (but
>> >make sure you install Wind'ohs first) which installs LILO in the MBR and
>> >then Linux is the next OS in the process. It seems to like this and will
>> >boot fine. Your other option is to allocate about 10MB or so of space at
>> >the beginning of your HD and use this for your boot software. I have
>> >heard reports that this will work, though you are better off installing
>> >Linux to your first partition. Basically, if Linux isn't located within
>> >the first 1024 cylinders of your HD LILO will have problems booting.
>> >WInd'ohs will still start up OK if it is not installed on the first
>> >partition because it doesn't recognise etx2 FS's and so it will believe it
>> >is still the first OS.
>> >The exact steps I took were:
>> >1. PArtition my primary HD into three (two large one small)
>> >2. Install Wind'ohs on the third one (if you don't format the
>> >first or second it will pcik up the second as C:)
>> >3. Install Linux on the first partition and make sure you format it
>> >(use the second smaller partition for swap space)
>> >4. When LILO installs it will pick up both Linux and Wind'ohs and will
>> >boot between both, depending on the choice you make at boot time.
>> >
>> >Let me know how you go. Tis worked for me and I can't see why it wouldn't
>> >work for you. I had about 7 unsuccessful attempts until I tried this,
>> >which worked like a charm and has run sweet ever since.
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> >
>> >Wayne
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>> >********************************
>> >Wayne Petherick
>> >Criminology Department
>> >Bond University
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>> >********************************
>>
