On Wed 29 Apr 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > "matthew.r.pavlovich.1" wrote: > >I am getting a quirky bug with lilo. I have a 4gig Wide SCSI drive that > >is set to scsi id 0. I can partition the disk, write to the disk, read, > >mount it as /, but I cannot boot from it (The boot flag is set on the > >first primary partition). I have an adaptec 2940UW controller w/ 2.0.33. > >Lilo runs correctly, and the light flashes on the drive, but at boot it > >just hangs..not even a 'Li'. I was wondering if anyone has seen a similar > >problem with lilo and large drives, or lilo and adaptec 2940's. Lilo > >works correctly with another hard drive, that is a 2gig and on the narrow > >bus. > > > > I had the same problem some time ago (Adaptec card, I don't remember the > model). I solved it by disabling the "Extended translation mode for big > disks" in the adaptec BIOS and adding the "linear" option to lilo.config. > I hope that helps.
I still saw problems last weekend with mbr.b not being written to /dev/sda when installing frozen with the 04-11 boot-floppies. I did that by hand "dd if=/boot/mbr.b of=/dev/sda bs=444" and after that I could boot from the disk. And yes, I did answer 'y' to the question "install a boot block" or whatever the exact message is. Note that this only happens on a virgin disk or a disk that otherwise doesn't have any remains of a previous installation on it (e.g. dos; the dos primary bootstrap also works). Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands Support Randal Schwartz! See http://www.lightlink.com/fors/ or send empty email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
