This is almost certainly a problem with hard drive geometry. You should
open up your PC and look at the label glued onto it, and make a
note of the number of cyliners, heads and sectors. If you want a dual-boot
machine, and the windows part already works OK, then
you don't need to mess with the BIOS.
If this is not the case, have a look at the BIOS, and try setting LBA as
the hard disk addressing mode.
If this still doesn't work, boot linux from a boot floppy, edit
/etc/lilo.conf and add this line
append = "hd=cyl,hds,sctrs"
where cyl is the number of cylinders, hds is the number of heads and sctrs
is the number of sectors printed on your disk.
You might find the LILO mini HOWTO and the BOOTDISK HOWTO useful,
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
