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"Christian Gläsing" wrote:
> 
> lilo din´t load without the floppy disk.   it stops 
> with "li". I searched the web and have read that the 
> problem is that my hd is bigger than 1024.

To which David Moberg replied:
>
> This most often occurs when the second-stage loader, 
> '/boot/boot.b', is not loadable using the BIOS.
> 
> tried specifying 'lba32' in your 'lilo.conf' file?  
> 
> specify the disk geometry to LILO using 'disk= heads= sectors='
> 
> tell LILO what disks are assigned to what device codes.  
> This can be done using 'disk= bios=' lines in 'lilo.conf'

This is why I use loadlin.exe as the default loader for 
BasicLinux.  It has far fewer hassles than LILO.  Simply 
create a small bootable DOS partition and run loadlin.exe 
from there.  It is foolproof (when you boot a clean DOS).

Christian, if David's suggestions do not fix your LILO
problem, I will give you instructions for using loadlin.exe.  
But I will need more information:  What partition is BL3 on?  
How big is the partition?  Are there any other partitions on 
the HD?  Is there unallocated space on the HD available for 
a new partition?  Do you have a DOS bootdisk?

Cheers,
Steven

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