According to Tim Moore: While burning my CPU.
>
> As someone new to Linux (10 days) only, I am very ignorant. I only had
> 120Mb hard disc so my partial installs left all sort of problams (Emacs
> would not run etc). I got a 625 Mb disc last Saturday morning and finally
> last night about midnight got RH4.2 running.
>
> The problem was that on re-boot of LILO only LI came up and it locked up.
> This was from a background of setting Cmos up with the right number of
> cylinders etc. The first partion for SWAP was 50 Mb (hda1) and the
> second the rest of the drive (hda2).
>
> On trying to install dos (Yuk!) 6.20 it still just gave LI & locked. So I
> left 1 cylinder (1Mb ) for partition 1, 50 Mb for partition 2, the
> rest for partition 3 and put the boot option to the 1 Mb partition 1.
>
> It worked! Phew!!! : ))) but I don't know why? May be
> flakey hardware/motherboard? Any ideas?
Not flakey or broken, just a crommy BIOS with an autodetect that assigns the
wrong hds/cys/sector count. Check the drive geometry on the drive itself or
its documentation against what your bios says, i would bet a pound they are
different.
>
> Tim
>
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Regards Richard.
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