Re: tlug: TLJ2.0 question... again

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Michael Chiu wrote:

> Hello everyone!
> 
> I asked the question about booting LILO on TL2.0J yesterday, and someone
> suggested to pick MBR for the installation of LILO, so we did that, but
> we have the same problem again...
> 
> What is happening is that every time we install and reboot, it will boot
> up to "LI" and freeze.  Does anyone know any other way that we might be
> able to make this work?

How big is this machine?  What floor are you on?  I suggest immediate
defenestration as the best solution in this case.

Seriously, though, is the drive in LBA mode?  Is it on the primary IDE
chain?  If both of these are 'yes', you may have One Of Those Machines On
Which Lilo Simply Refuses To Work, or OOTMOWLSRTW, for short.  In which
case, use the sysboot disk (instructions for making/using are in the TL
user's guide).

> 
> On a side note, I just TL2.0J up and running on my Sony VAIO, but stupid
> me, since I only left a 600MB partition available for it, I couldn't
> install the developmental sections, and now I think I'm gonna have to
> re-install since I can't remake the kernel... (in other words, no
> network support for me now)
> 

why would you have to rebuild the kernel for network support?  It's
Pcmcia, right?  

> But it is interesting how my whole floor is trying to convert to Linux
> once I brought the TL2.0J to the office a few weeks ago... :D

Ah, the Assimilation is on sched.... er, Great, I'm glad to hear that!

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