LILO giving 01 01 01 01 error

harddrivecleaner_at_yahoo.com
Date: 09/29/05 

Date: 29 Sep 2005 13:31:04 -0700

Hi folks,

I know I'm not the first person to observe this, but
LILO is starting up with L 01 01 01 01... on my older
laptop after I put my 40 gig hard drive in it.
The drive had worked just fine in a newer laptop.
I really prefer the older machine.

I've tried everything it seems, but I still get
the same L 01 01 01 effect. I tried:

* setting LBA32 mode, with no effect
* setting the hard drive CHS geometry, with no effect
    I did this:
           disk = /dev/hda
              bios = 0x80
* running MSDOS fdisk /mbr, which caused an "invalid partition table"
error
* reinstalling LILO, producing the 01 01 error again.
* upgrading the BIOS, to no effect.

Does anyone know what else can be done?

Might GRUB be a better choice than LILO?

Thanks.