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On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> I put together a 2-floppy BL3.50 with framebuffer kernel that is supposed
> to boot to 800x600 framebuffer text screen.
>
> I installed disk1 to a 100% good DOS-formatted floppy disk, in linux with
> dd, after running floppymeter and correcting for deviation -210 (my best
> floppy drive).  I also tried installing it in DOS with rawrite.
>
> When I try to boot I get Error: 0x09, which I cannot find in the archives.
>
> BL3.50 without framebuffer kernel works fine.  (Unless the disk is bad,
> then I get error 0x10).

Lilo manual says

0x09   "DMA attempt across 64K boundary".  This shouldn't happen.  Try 
omitting the COMPACT option.

This is supposed to optimize loading by the map installer.

Does BL3.50 lilo.conf use COMPACT option?

COMPACT option can cause other problems such as BIOS error and geometry 
mismatch.  Do not use LINEAR and COMPACT together, to avoid problems.


Sindi