On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Hamish McBrearty wrote:
> Hi there
>
> Well I was feeling a bit adventurous tonight and have successfully
> upgraded my Gentoo box to 2.6.0-test9. Everything's very sweet, and seems
> quicker but that could be my imagination.
>
> However, when I run Lilo I get an error I've never seen before. The system
> boots fine so I'm not too concerned but I'd love to figure it out. Here's
> there error.
>
> Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for device
> 0x80
> Kernel: 65535 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
> BIOS: 1024 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
Hmm 65535 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors =66059280
1024 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors =16450560
Either the BIOS is set wrong for the HDD, or it can't handle the size of
disk that is installed. But don't worry, Linux takes over from the BIOS
when determining the disk geometry. Linux does not trust BIOSs.
The error message is probably a feature of the 2.6 kernel.
Phil.
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