Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-27 Thread Perry Piplani
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, David Pfitzner wrote: > > > > So why in the hell does lilo report cylinder 2312 which I'm fairly sure is > > in hda3 when I'm setting up hda2 which starts at 817? > > I seem to recall reading that you can have problems with > partitations where are not _entirely_ within 1023

Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-26 Thread Dennis Groves
A. M. Varon wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > > I'm reposting this since I haven't gotten any responses yet. Any > ideas > > would be greatly appreciated. > > If your motherboard is new, you could turn on lba in the bios of > your > computer. > > Linux has no problems accessing

Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-25 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > I'm reposting this since I haven't gotten any responses yet. Any ideas > would be greatly appreciated. If your motherboard is new, you could turn on lba in the bios of your computer. Linux has no problems accessing my 2.0 gb. EIDE harddisk. regards,

Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-25 Thread David Pfitzner
> I am aware that, for whatever reason, lilo won't look beyond cylinder > 1023, the 540MB line that M$ drew out of ignorance years ago. (It might > not have been Bill but I like blaming shit on him anyway.) > > Anyway. The point is that I took this into account and started hda2 at > cylinder 817

Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > I don't understand why lilo is doing this. I've never had this problem > before. > > I just repartitioned my drive and put linux on hda2. When I try to run > lilo to boot linux from hda2 instead of hda1 it gives me this error about > my cylinders. > >

Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-24 Thread Rick Jones
I'm reposting this since I haven't gotten any responses yet. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > I don't understand why lilo is doing this. I've never had this problem > before. > > I just repartitioned my drive and put linux on hda2. When I try to

LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-23 Thread Rick Jones
I don't understand why lilo is doing this. I've never had this problem before. I just repartitioned my drive and put linux on hda2. When I try to run lilo to boot linux from hda2 instead of hda1 it gives me this error about my cylinders. geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2312 >