On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote:
> > > I achieved this by having the kernel image outside the 1024
> > > Cylinder limit, which moves up when you are in LBA mode, I believe.
> > > If you changed from LBA to normal, you might just be able to do
> > > this with some disk settings.
> I know that it's /me/ who wants /help/. But why does nobody read what I
> wrote? I'll quote again from my first posting:
>
> > pii233:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> > Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
I'm no expert on this LBA stuff, but I have never seen more than 64 heads in an
LBA spec. Maybe I just have small disks or ancient BIOS. Have you tried changing
from LBA to NORMAL in the BIOS and then redetecting the HD. It will come up with
about 4200 cylinders, and 16 heads but that information will be accepted. You
have boot as /dev/hda1, don't you? It doesn't seem to be that big, certainly not
over 500 megs.
>From memory, the 8.4 Gig limit was/is made up by 1023 cylinders, 63 heads, & 63
sectors or something like that.
On an entirely separate note, in Dos, the "Insert System disk into drive A:"
was the sure sign of a dud hard disk. The bios would spit that out when it
failed to read the boot sector, or read something else instead. You may be up
the wrong tree checking out Lilo. The errors are usually stupid there, and
you're obviously not. There are a few other things to check in the BIOS
Boot order A: C:
1st boot device 1ST HARD DISK
2nd boot device FLOPPY
And check whether the bootable flag is set on /dev/hda1. The more my brain
works on this, the more it's sounding like a dud 1st partition. As a last
resort, try booting on a system floppy and something like this
cd / (your actual directory will be wherever you mount the / partition)
mkdir spareboot
cp /boot/*.* /spareboot
fdisk (in which you delete /dev/hda1, and remake a hda1 with the available
space)
format and reload with the contents of /spareboot and run LILO again. That
might do it. It's the M$ solution, but (like M$) it just may work :)
--
Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
