Re: LILO failure and no middle mouse button

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

In lilo.conf, look for 'linear'. If there, remove it, if not, add it.
This sometimes helps. Also make sure your drive is always in LBA mode,
not AUTO if you can avoid it.

Chris Kloiber


s-luppescu@uchicago.edu wrote:
> 
> I have never had so many problems with a RedHat install since I started with
> 3.0.3 (Picasso). I did a fresh install of RedHat 7 and have had lots of
> problems. I hope someone can help.
> 
> 1) Lilo fails at the first L. No 2-digit error code. I tried rerunning lilo,
> replacing lilo.conf with the one from my previous and then running lilo again.
> It runs with no errors given, but it just won't start up at all. I can boot
> from a floppy, though. The lilo documentation says this error is usually due to
> bad disk geometry, but I haven't changed the disk from before. All I did was
> add a partition at the end of the disk. (I deleted partition hda10 and replaced
> it with hda10 and hda11.)
> 
> 2) I can't get the wheel on my mouse (MS Intellimouse) to be recognized as the
> third button. XF86Config has this:
> 
> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> 
> This is a large pain in the neck, as you can imagine. No copying and pasting
>:-{.
> 
> If anyone can help with this I'd really appreciate it.
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