tlug: LILO hosed II - the next day

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

Thanks for all the input so far on my LILO problem.  I do have some progress
to report and have apparently found the culprit.  When looking at the
Advanced Settings section of my BIOS, I found that the large disk access
mode had become DOS instead of Other.  Since I never touched this but know
for certain that it was previously set to Other, I'm mystified as to what
caused this, setting it back to Other fixed the problem with reporting the
number of heads on my 6.4 GB disk, and fdisk now reports 16 heads, 63
sectors, 12592 cyclinders.  So far, so good.

Running LILO from a shell prompt works.  So far, so good.

BUT - at bootup, it still gets as far as printing LI and then freezes, so
I'm still using a sysboot disk to boot the system.  The boot partition is
completely within the first 1024 cylinders, so this should work (indeed, it
used to), so I'm kind of stumped as to why it doesn't now.  What's the final
magic key I need to get it back to normal?

The partition table and lilo.conf are below.

Thanks,

Jonathan



Partition table:

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 12592.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p]^H

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 12592 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1            1        1      261   131512+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda2          262      262      522   131544   83  Linux native
/dev/hda3          523      523    12592  6083280    5  Extended
/dev/hda5          523      523     1132   307408+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda6         1024     1133     1742   307408+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda7         1024     1743     3774  1024096+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda8         3072     3775    10682  3481600+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda9        10240    10683    12592   962608+  83  Linux native


lilo.conf

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hda2
        read-only


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