Re: [TCLUG:9799] IDE Cards and Lilo

[Clay Fandre <cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org>]

Mike Nielsen wrote:
> 
> Got hold of a cruddy little machine.  The motherboard didn't care much for the
> 4 gig drive I stuck in so a chucked in an IDE card.  Disabled the onboard IDE
> controler in the Bios, booted from my SuSE installation floppy and installed
> away.   All seemed to be going well, the system recognized the Harddrive as
> /dev/hda   Lilo ran without errors.  However when I reboot I seem to always get
> stuck on the  LI of LILO
> 
> Meaning it gets to LI and hangs.      I booted up with the floppy again,
> recopiled a kerlen with extended IDE support  (2.2.7) with the same results.
> Anyone else ever ran into this?

Yea. Try adding the linear option to your lilo.conf file. (man
lilo.conf)

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Clay Fandre
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