According to Matt Davies: While burning my CPU.
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> I have been wondering why I couldn't get LILO to install properly on my =
> Master Boot Record and discovered the reason today. Apparently LILO =
> will only boot a Linux partition if it is physically within the first =
> 1200 or so (I can't remember the exact number) cylinders. Unfortunately =
> my partition is after this cylinder at around 1600. If there a way to =
> get round this without resorting to reshuffling of partitions to get my =
> Linux ones to the beginning of the harddisk? Or do I have to obtain a =
> copy of PartitionMagic?
LILO should have told you it could not boot by way of;
geo_comp_addr is beyond cyl 1023
or something along those lines.
The thing to do, (or one thing to do) with large disks is to choose either
the large or lba option for disk detection in your bios.
As to helping your problem _as is_ i wont go into details otherwise you
could lose your data.
A possable solution for the time being is a lilo boot floppy which can be
created by defining;
boot = /dev/fd0
in your /etc/lilo.conf and then re running 'lilo'.
The thing to remember when installing a new disk or reinstalling on an old
disk, is to choose the bios options mentioned above, or make a small
partition for "/" as /dev/hda1 and let the bios decide howto detect the disk,
that way you always have a linux partition below the 1024 boundry.
Matt, would you be so kind as _not_ to attach HTML formatted messages to a
linux list, thanks.
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> Best regards,
> Matt.
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Regards Richard.
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