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Topic: ideCF and Frugal lilo gives me 'L', Not being able to boot a frugal install

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outanet

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Posted: July 13 2005,20:35

I have a 64M Lexar CF and a 64M Toshiba (branded Viking) CF, with a tranquil cf>ide adapter and lastly DSL 0.9.2 & 1.2.
After the frugal install to hda1 successfully tells me lilo has been written, it reboots and all i get is an L. If i use the cd to boot it 'fromhd', everything is fine, but for this project, it kinda defeats the object of running from a cf.

I have googled this and done a fair bit of searching in the name of sport before posting this, but cant find anything helpful.

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mgmont

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Posted: July 14 2005,13:14

Outanet, I think you will find that your problem is in cmos setup rather than anything to do with DSL. I am also running two machines from cf and I had the same symptoms on my laptop. I found that it was just a matter of setting the hard drive parameters correctly so that it would recognize the cf. At this time I can not tell you what settings that I used because the machine is at home and I am not at home. If you can not figure it out I will post my settings later.

Good luck!