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[jeight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Eighmy)]

I seem to fall into this category as well.  After installing SuSE 6.2 on
a single partition hda (6.4 drive) also adding a /swap. When asked where
I wanted to put LILO I used the wrong choice apparently, because I
picked the fist sector of the first partition, I guess instead of the
MBR.  Thank God for Boot disks...I always make two of them.  In the
past, I started booting with boot disks only (security reasons), so
using this other method was a little unclear until after I got the error
and read what I may of did to cause it. 
  
My version  ; ^ )
/John

"Darren R. Weber" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > I remember seeing the explanation for this somewhere but for the life of me
> > can't find it again.  I searched through the list archive but couldn't
> > locate anything.
> >
> > I have (or want) SuSE and Windows 98 on the same machine using LILO to boot
> > both.  I did a fresh install of 6.2 and thought I setup LILO the same as I
> > had it in 6.1.  Now, when the computer boots, all I get is "LI" and then it
> > locks.  If I remember right this has something to do the 1024 cylinder
> > limit.  Is this correct and could someone please expand on this further?
> >
> > TIA
> > Chris
> 
> I've had my share of LILO problems (I gave up on it on this machine ran a
> different loader).  I have just about memorized the errors.  :-)
> 
> To quote the SuSE manual (pg 106 in my 6.1 version):
> "'LI' The second step has been invoked but could not be started.  This can be
> due to a faulty disk geometry or to moving /boot/boot.b without reinstalling
> LILO."
> 
> Good luck.  :-)
> 
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Darren R. Weber
> drw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> ICQ# 2849193
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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