Hi Janyce,
> But, I can boot from the boot floppy, and otherwise everything seems ok.
> Since the disk is larger than 528 MB, I've specified the linear option in
> Lilo, and in the past this has always done the trick, even for the Samba
> server's 20GB disk. after much browsing through old Email messages, and a
> couple of reformats/reinstalls, I've come to the conclusion that there's
> something fishy going on. Officially the parameters, as reported by the WD disk
> utilities (and the disk label), the disk has 2484 cylinders, 16 heads, and 63
> sectors.
>
> Linux fdisk, however, reports:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Check your bios geometry settings for the disk. Are they set to normal, large
or LBA? I have never used the linear option, because I always set the bios to
access the drive with LBA (with 8 GB+ disks you specify the lba32 option in
lilo.conf). Maybe the disk was partitioned with another setting than the one
you are currently using. That would explain the invalid partition table as
reported by fdisk.
Bye,
Leonard.
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