[ale] Newbie install question

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

I understand that this is a common problem, I have encountered it on a
system I installed for a friend of mine, and another friend of mine tells
me he has encountered it several times.  My own system doesn't have this
problem.  My guess is that this is because my system needs the "Linear
Access" option to be enabled (mine is SCSI, all the others mentioned are
EIDE).  You might try reinstalling LILO using the linear option, simply
add the line:

linear

to the global section of your /etc/lilo.conf file and type "lilo" at the
next command line (as root, of course) and that should fix it, hopefully.

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 tom at watson.st wrote:

> I have installed RH 6.1 about three times on a machine now and everytime I
> get to the bootloader screen I get a failure whether I pick the master boot
> record or the first partition. I can get by the failure but then LILO will
> not start (the boot hangs). The only way I can boot is with a boot disk.
> That's not terrible but its a pain.
> Is this a common problem or is there a way to install LILO after the RH 6.1
> install is finished. I cannot find this problem in the HOWTOs, but if
> anyone knows where to read about it, please let me know.
> 
> Thx in advance,
> Tom
> 
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