On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Robert Foxworth wrote:
> Somewhere in my files I have a document about LILO that explains that
> each one of those 4 letters that is shown on the screen, is an indicator
> of how far the loading process has run.
On my system it's lines 2777 and following, of
/usr/share/doc/lilo-21.4.4/README .
> I saw this happen once a while back and my recollection is that a
> mismatch between the hard disk geometry, and what the disk table entry
> thinks the geometry is, will cause this error.
Oh, I was just making that up, to illustrate the /type/ of error that I
usually see.
> Are you trying to run a kernel image on a HD that was compiled on a
> different HD?
No, I believe the last LILO error I got (which wasn't caused by forgetting
to re-run /sbin/lilo after a kernel upgrade) was some kind of LBA/CHS
mixup.
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