[CLUE-Tech] LILO Boot Problem

[Randy Arabie]

On Wednesday, 12 February 2003 at  9:52:29 -0700, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:

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> Maybe you need a newer LILO? (Or GRUB)

My Lilo version is 22.1

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> It's been so long since I looked at the BIOS screen on my P133 (haven't
> turned it on in over a year), that I don't remember whether that's normal
> or not. I do remember fussing around with LARGE vs. LBA, but it might not
> have been on that machine. Have your tried booting the box with those
> options, or just NORMAL. The whole point of LBA is that the drive remaps
> the geometry, in effect reporting something the BIOS can deal with. It
> lies. Typically, in the past anyway, it would over-report the number of
> heads, and underreport something else, because the BIOSes of those days
> couldn't deal with the number of cylinders (I think) used by the larger
> drives. The drive itself would re-map the RAW IO request coming from the
> BIOS to correspond to the actual head/cylinder mapping. So, using LBA
> mode, the geometry won't look right. But if the reported size is correct,
> it's probably OK.

Checking the BIOS when I got home revealed that despite the different
"appearance" in geometry, the LBA mode did report the proper disk size.
So, I switched to LBA mode, modified my lilo.conf, ran the lilo command
and rebooted....It Worked!
-- 
Allons Rouler!
        
Randy
http://www.arabie.org/
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