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>LILO Stopping at LI --- LBA and "linear", or NOT</H3>
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<p><strong>From Ryan Ayers on Sun, 26 Mar 2000
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Mr. Dennis,
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I was reading through the some past articles you wrote. Some one keeps
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asking about the LI problem. Well, it has been my experience that
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sometimes I can cure it by detecting the hard drive in the bios as LBA
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instead of normal or large. As soon as I change it back to normal, then
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it starts the LI thing again.
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Have you heard of this too?
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Ryan Ayers
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Yes. I've suggested it many times. If you set the CMOS/BIOS to
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"LBA" (linear block addressing) you generally should add the
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corresponding "linear" directive your your <TT>/etc/lilo.conf</TT>
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(and run the <TT>/sbin/lilo</TT> command to process those directives into
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a boot block and a set of boot maps, of course).
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It's not just "someone" --- it's alot of someones. Questions
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about LILO are some of the most common that there are in Linux.
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This is because LILO is unlike anything from the MS-Windows and
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MS-DOS world, and it is unlike anything on traditional UNIX
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workstations. It is unique to Linux and basically necessary
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given that Linux provides such flexibility in where you put its
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kernel and what sorts of filesystems you're allowed to use for
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your root mount.
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I'll copy this one to the column --- just as an extra tip for
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those who don't read through enough of my answers.
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<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 52 April 2000</H5>
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