On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Dan Eklof wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I'm having some trouble with LILO under RedHat 5.0.
>
> Here's some dmesg stuff:
>
> 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_TM3840A, 3681MB w/76kB Cache, CHS=935/128/63
> hdb: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdd: QUANTUM SIROCCO2550A, 2445MB w/75kB Cache, CHS=4969/16/63, DMA
> ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
> hdd: hdd1 hdd5
>
> hdd runs Linux. hda runs Windows.
>
> Well, anyways, after the install, LILO starts up, and does this:
>
> LI 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 .....
>
> And just keeps repeating '01' over and over. I booted to Linux using a boot
> disk, and ran lilo.
>
> LILO reports this:
>
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Added linux *
> Added dos
>
> /etc/lilo.conf looks like this:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.31
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hdd1
> read-only
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=dos
> table=/dev/hda
>
> Any help on getting lilo to run is greatly appreciated, since the users of
> this computer do use Windows at times. Thanks in advance!
>
> Dan Eklof
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >
> --
I had much the same problem when first installing Red Hat 5.0. The fact
is that the Linux Kernel must reside below cilynder 1023 of you CD, as
outlined in the installation guide that came with the CD's
Its says smth like this:
1) if you have two IDEs (hda hdb) Linux may reside in any of them
2) if you have two IDEs (second one a CDROM) Linux must reside in the
first one
3) In case of SCSI drives is much the same.
4) All of the above will work if The kernel is installed below cylinder 1023
if it begins below that cylinder but extends after that.... that may be
your problem.
All this is due to some BIOS limitants that cannot access more thant 2
IDEs and not after Cyl1023. All this happens cause LILO starts up when no
OS is in memory and has to use BIOS.
Ivan
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