Re: tlug: LILO Vs. 1024??

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 12:33:22AM +0900, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> > 
> > Without the floppy, it just sits there,stuck.  Never gets to LILO.
> 
> What does your lilo.conf look like?  Have you tried the "linear" option.
> Be sure to rerun lilo if you change anything.
> 
> Are you using some sort of multi-boot manager (system commander or
> somesuch) or are you jumping directly to lilo from the MBR?
> 
> > LBA mode is enabled and fdisk now reports the 6.4 GB disk as being 787
> > cyclinders times the unlikely head count of 0
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This can't be right.  Something is very wrong. 

It could be rolling over the maximum limit of what fdisk thinks the
maximum number of heads should be...?

On a maxtor 8.4GB EIDE, I get:

Without LBA:
	16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders

With LBA:
	255 heads, 63 sectors, 1021 cylinders


so, maybe something IS screwed up, if a 6.4 GB disk is showing 0 heads..?

> 
> I'd like to see the lilo config, fdisk output, as well as the boot
> messages.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Rex
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