Re: Lilo

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Ian Wright wrote:

>Also, in the midst of all the messing about before I repartitioned the C
>drive, I had a stage where lilo was only partly starting and getting as far
>as LI. I seem to remember that someone once said that each letter has a
>significance in lilo's operation - where can I find out about this? It may
>well be useful in the future ;o)

Here the lilo docs are in /usr/doc/. My memory is that LI is caused by either:
1. geometry mismatch, or
2. the LILO map file has been nuked.

Anyhow if lilo is not working, and did before, as has already been suggested you
should just run lilo at the command line and forget linuxconf.

atb
Martin
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