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[bb@xxxxxxxx (Bodo Bauer)]

William J. Sandman wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> >
> > Does S.u.S.E. use anoother version of LILO than RedHat? The reason I
> > ask is that I installed RedHat on a IBM Thinkpad 760XL, no problem. But
> > then I would try S.u.S.E. 5.1, and then LILO only get as far as 'L' and
> > then hangs. I don't know what that implies (except it's a hardware
> > problem). But when LILO from RHL 5.0 works, why not LILO from S.u.S.E.
> > 5.1?
> >
> > Now I start it through DOS and loadlin, works OK, but still...
> >
> 
> S.u.S.E.  uses the same lilo as Red Hat (possibly a differnt version from
> release to release) but this *Should* make no difference. Checnk out the

Unfortunatly it makes a difference. We are using version 20, which treats
the 'linear' paramemeter in a different way. So sometimes it works with 
RH but it doesn't with S.u.S.E. However removing 'linear' helps in most
cases.

Ciao,
        BB


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