On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> According to Jimmy C. Thomson: While burning my CPU.
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> >
> > > According to Jimmy C. Thomson: While burning my CPU.
> > > >
> > > > I get this error when I try to add a new lilo option:
> > > >
> > > > Added linux *
> > > > geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (3409 > 1023)
> > >
> > > The above means the kernel image is located on cyl 3409 the '>' means "which
> > > is greater than" cyl, 1023.
> > >
> > > I suggest you copy the Image to the same place as where you have the other
> > > image, the successfull (Added linux *), just call it a different name, change
> > > the entry in lilo.conf to reflect and rerun lilo.
> > >
> > > This is all explained in the lilo documentation to be found on most systems
> > > in the /usr/doc/* dirs'.
> > >
> > Yep, I did this, and it still did the same thing.
Here is some info about my drives, I am hoping someone can see my problem.
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lilo.conf
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boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-3
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.2
label=new
root=/dev/sda1
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
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output from lilo -v
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LILO version 20, Copyright 1992-1997 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-3
Added linux *
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.2
Added new
Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b
Added dos
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
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dmesg (sda1 is my linux disk and I boot from hda (win98)
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Memory: sized by int13 0e801h
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fdb60
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfdb70
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 332.60 BogoMIPS
Memory: 256828k/262144k available (748k kernel code, 384k reserved, 3964k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
Linux IP multicast router 0.07.
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized^M
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue
Dec 29 13:11:13 EST 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, 6149MB w/81kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA
hdc: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 24X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 15/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 255/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 394 instructions downloaded
(scsi1) <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 15/1
(scsi1) Wide Channel B, SCSI ID=7, 255/255 SCBs
(scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 394 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.7/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.7/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W SUN4.2G Rev: 0738
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST12400N Rev: 8044
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 4.10
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8386733 [4095 MB] [4.1
GB]
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 > sda3
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4194685 [2048 MB] [2.0
GB]
sdb: sdb1
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xef00, 00:60:97:c3:13:74, IRQ 9
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Adding Swap: 104428k swap-space (priority -1)
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 12,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0xb9,cs=23940,#f=191,fs=5450,fl=61110,ds=12052,de=1563,data=12178,se=22352,ts=159132728,ls=64543,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:00.
sysctl: ip forwarding off
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
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Disk Geometry (from fdisk)
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Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 784 6297448+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 4095 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 3491 3574431 83 Linux native
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(444, 254, 63) should be (444, 63, 32)
/dev/sda2 3994 4095 104448 5 Extended
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(522, 9, 63) should be (522, 63, 32)
/dev/sda3 3491 3993 514080 83 Linux native
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(508, 254, 63) should be (508, 63, 32)
/dev/sda5 3994 4095 104432 82 Linux swap
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output of df
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[root@wired /root]# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda1 3455129 1793993 1482415 55% /
/dev/sda3 497699 13 471982 0% /save
/dev/sdb1 2092344 1280416 811928 61% /mp3
Hope someone can help me!
Thanks,
Jimmy
