I have a Seagate Barracuda that I'd like to use as the only drive in box I have. I was able to go through the install but have noticed that DiskDruid seems to make one primary partition, and put the rest on extended partitions (not what I want). So I used fdisk. Anyhow all that worked and the system came up after the install finished. So I spent some time configuring devices and had everything working. Then I decided to put kernel 2.2.2 on it. I compiled the source and changed the links in /boot and made a new initrd and edited /etc/lilo.conf and ran lilo and upgraded all the necessary RPMs. Anyhow I should have written down the message that lilo gave me, but it said the same thing five times, twice before saying it added the first entry, and three times after. The message had something to do with "may have trouble accessing drive <hex #>." Anyhow I thought it was in reference to the cylinders thing so I ignored it. Now when I try to boot off that drive, it gets as far as "LI" and just beeps (a bunch of short ones, not one long one). So here's the info from fdisk: [root@sark /root]# fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2006. This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 2006 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 701 717808 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 702 902 205824 83 Linux native /dev/sda3 903 967 66560 82 Linux swap /dev/sda4 968 2006 1063936 83 Linux native Command (m for help): q I though that since the root partition (sda1) was under 1024 cylinders that I wouldn't have a problem. I tried to use a rescue disk but it gave me an IO error after the prompt for the ramdisk. I tried Tom's root boot but that asked for a ramdisk (though tomsrb didn't need one) so I hit enter and it gave me a kernel panic. I'm running off an IDe drive but would like to have the SCSI one work so I can put the IDE in another box. -- __________________________________________________ Justin Georgeson Institute for Advanced Technology -- System Administrator University of Texas at Austin -- Dept. of Computer Science http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pyros [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
