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by **Brian H Smith** » Wed, 23 Mar 1994 12:21:20

I have spent a great deal of time trying to install LILO
and it has come to be both an obsession and a source of great grief
in my life. I installed LILO in my MBR on my WD 340 drive (I am
running Linux v0.99p15 on an Intel 486DX50). When I boot, I receive
the message:
LILO.
Loading Linux.
Error 0x09
Loading Linux.
Error 0x09
Etc. Etc.

I can stop this infinite string of errors by hitting a key (cntrl I
believe) and boot dos (I have added MSDOS as a secondary configuration to
test LILO). The readme file has the following to say about error 0x09:

"0x09 DMA attempt across a 64k boundary. This shouldn't happen. Try omitting
the -c option and report this problem to the author."

Naturally, I've tried loading with both compressed and uncompressed
kernel images. I have not yet tried reporting to the author, but that may
be the next step. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Brian H. Smith

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by **James Montebel** » Fri, 25 Mar 1994 02:09:58

This is almost certainly a hardware problem. I recently had nearly the
same thing (Error 0x08 instead of 0x09).

Try removing any non-essential hardware (sound cards, for instance) and
disabling any ports (parallel and serial) you don't need. If you have
both an IDE and a SCSI adapter, try to use only one. If the problem goes
away, add hardware until it comes back.

This is a guess, but DMA problems seem to haunt flakier (cheaper)
motherboards. My MB is some no-name Asian clone, and I've have oddball
DMA related problems from day one. I wish I understood more about what
was going on (like how the DMA system works), but for now I have things
working and that's good enough.

I wonder if someone in the Linux community who understands these things
could illuminate those of us who don't?

--

That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all
the lessons that history has to teach. - Aldous Huxley

by **Brian H Smith** » Sat, 26 Mar 1994 00:52:12

>This is almost certainly a hardware problem. I recently had nearly the
>same thing (Error 0x08 instead of 0x09).

>Try removing any non-essential hardware (sound cards, for instance) and
>disabling any ports (parallel and serial) you don't need. If you have
>both an IDE and a SCSI adapter, try to use only one. If the problem goes
>away, add hardware until it comes back.

>This is a guess, but DMA problems seem to haunt flakier (cheaper)
>motherboards. My MB is some no-name Asian clone, and I've have oddball
>DMA related problems from day one. I wish I understood more about what
>was going on (like how the DMA system works), but for now I have things

Someone else sent me an EMail with a suggestion that worked. When
I disabled the BIOS on my IDE board, LILO worked. However, some DOS
applications were no too happy about it. Oh well, sometimes you have to
choose sides.

Brian
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