>You have to keep in mind how a PeeCee BIOS boots the system. It wants to
>boot from the FIRST hard disk, which will be hda on the EIDE bus. It is the
>ONLY disk that will have the MBR. Therefore, lilo need only write to that
>disk.
>
>I know, this makes it real tough to make a MBR on a disk that isn't the first
>one, but will be once the disks are rearranged.
I'm sorry I wasn't clear, but I did remove the old drives and install the
new one as /dev/hda before I tried to write to the MBR. The error I got
was:
#/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt
Warning: device 0x0305 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1249 > 1023)
#
I tried to run lilo while the drive wasn't primary too. It was hdd at
that point. I used the -r /mnt parameter, but I got the error I mention
above. Searching for this error on dejanews yielded an answer in what
I believe was Dutch.
I assume the problem is how I have the drive partitioned or that I haven't
specified the geometry or something like that, but I'm not sure which
thing I need to do. Is it likely that I need to specify the geometry?
Do I specify the numbers that my BIOS reports for LBA or what is printed
on the drive which is "hd=12555,16,63". I assume that this would go in
the append line of lilo.conf.
I'm only going to have one disk when I'm done since I want to use the
Ultra DMA feature and my old disks don't have it.
I wasn't able to make a boot floppy prior to switching the drives; it
appeared to be writing, but the disk was ignored during booting. Bios
is set to boot A: first and does with other disks.
I am not exactly a newbie (although you might not be able to tell from
this post), but this data transfer is stumping me. I have no problem
getting the data to the new drive, but lilo doesnt' like me.
Thanks for the response. Have a good day!
-Vicki
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