Debian convert??

[Pete Buechler]

On Friday 27 July 2001 21:47, you wrote:
> > I may be wrong, but I think the 1024 cyl limit for LILO has been fixed
> > over a year ago...  I have several partitions that I boot off of and
> > most if not all of them are well above 1024.
> >
> >   EBo --
>
>  I think the CD's I got were right befre that change in LILO happened.
> I tried to install not too long ago and LILO hung at LI. I assumed the
> reason being was the 124 limit.
>

Stopping after LI is usually due to a disk geometry problem.  I had that same 
problem and I found it was because the default LILO uses the LBA32 option and 
my BIOS does not support that. In /etc/lilo.conf, comment out the line 
"lba32", put in a line that simply reads "linear". Run LILO and try to boot 
again.

Keep your boot floppy handy, just in case!

-Pete-