[Wylug-help] Boot Question

[Roger Greenwood]

John Hodrien wrote:
>
> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Roger Greenwood wrote:
>
> > Changed, re-ran lilo, re-booted, still fails at LIL
> >
> > Any other ideas? Might have to live with this!!
>
> You've tried checking the BIOS that the drive is mapped as LBA, as another
> respectable suggested?

The initial boot message - where the discs are identified along with
other kit - does mention LBA so I presume this is OK.

>
> You're not running reiserfs without the -notail mount option are you? (don't
> think you are, but just checking)

How would I know ? I appear to have reiserfs 3.6.2-31 on my system, but
jfs appears to be running. This is a standard SuSE 8.1 install which I
have not messed with much.

>
> Grub? 0.92-69 is also on my system but I have never looked at it. At the moment all my efforts are directed at getting samba to work, but I could look at grub later.

>
> Sorry,
>
> jh
>
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