A. Is you machine an old 386 or 486?
B. Why the extended partition? Linux can happily take four (4) primary
partitions.
C. Do you use the 1023 * 64 * 63 translation in your cmos?
D. Is the drive set as LBA in the cmos?
If your machine is beyond a 486 it should handle a 2.1 Gb HDD without
problems. If it is a 486 it may have trouble with the 4092 * 16 * 63 setup you
have suggested.
Stay well and happy
Heracles
Rob Shugg wrote:
> Guys
> Im having trouble with lilo on a RH 6.1 install. Its a 2.1G(C/H/S =
> 4092/16/63) drive so I have a small /boot partition /dev/hda1.
> the RH install didn't set any partitions as bootable so i fixed this with
> fdisk after booting off the floppy.
> this gave me a curious "device in use" message but did seem to set the
> partition as bootable.
> here is the partition table.
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 9 18112+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 10 1023 2044224 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 10 42 66496+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda6 43 1023 1977664+ 83 Linux
>
> I have tried every combination of lilo.conf I can think of including boot =
> /dev/hda, linear, and this one:
>
> boot = /dev/hda1
> timeout = 10
> prompt
> disk = /dev/hda
> bios = 0x80
> sectors = 63
> heads = 16
> cylinders = 4092
> default = linux
> vga = normal
> read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> label = linux
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> root = /dev/hda6
>
> any ideas?
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