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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

Well, i know for a fact that lilo won't boot any kernel newer than
2.4.17.

It gives some strange error message when it tries to boot, don't
remember it. When that happened (right after my upgrade to 2.4.18), i
googled around a bit and found very few information, but it seems it's a
problem with some bios related to kernel size. The only fix i found was
installing grub.


Arwed
aka alley_cat

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:07:26PM -0800, Adam Clark wrote:
> Okay, but just out of curiosity - did you try and figure out what was going
> wrong with lilo before throwing in that grub disk?  lilo may be a little
> tricky on *some* systems, but it's *supposed* to work on everything.
> 
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:33:09 -0600
> Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Adam Clark wrote:
> > > Nope, and I'm not sure why this keeps coming up - probably ignorance on
> > > my part, but here's what I've seen on this discussion in the past:
> > > 
> > > lilo handles pretty much every i386ish system
> > 
> > It didn't handle mine, the only reason I was able to boot my system was 
> > because I had a grub boot disk lying around.