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> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Burak Serdar wrote:
>
> > I have two 10 GB harddisks, and I am trying to install lilo to the
> > second one. The boot partition is the first partition, and it is 40 MB,
> > so this should satisfy the 1024 cylinder requirement. I first tried
> > booting after a Redhat 6.1 install, it stopped at LI. Then, after
> > reading some LILO docs, I tried the 'linear' option, with the same
> > response. Then I tried to enter the disk geometry as seen on bios setup
> > (sec=63, head=255, cyl=1216). It still stops at LI. I really don't want
> > to use LOADLIN. Any ideas?
>
> I am sorry, none. You haven't given me any idea of what specifically
> you are trying to do, or how you are going about doing it. I am 99.7%
I am trying to install linux to the second harddisk, and at the same try
install LILO to the second harddisk and make the machine boot from D, so that
I don't touch the C drive.
>
> certain you are barking up the wrong tree trying to enter disk geometry.
> All right, if you are smart enough to recognize a lie by a percent sign,
> I pulled that out of thin air. Lilo almost never gets geometry wrong,
> so it is unlikely you can fix the problem by telling it a different
> wrong geometry. heads=255 is senseless. The hardware interface has
> room for 16 heads, and I haven't ever seen a HD bigger than 100m that
> didn't use all 16. The software interface has room for 256. Why use
> 255/256 possible (fictitious) heads, when that makes the arithmetic a
heads=255 is what the bios tells if I select LBA mode for the drive. If I
select normal HD mode, it tells sectors=63, heads=16, cyl=19386. I did not
try installing using the normal mode.
BTW, I saw a posting in one of the newsgroups about a newer version of LILO
which is supposed to support >8.4GB HD's. I donwloaded it and installed with
no luck. In the modified README of that LILO (or in some doc under
/usr/src/Documentation) says that the heads limit is 254, not 255. This does
not make sense.
>
> nightmare? LI says you conned the lilo installer into installing a boot
> sector, and it (the boot sector) was able to read _something_ where you
> told it /boot/boot.b would be, but it is _not_ boot/boot.b that it read.
>
> I think maybe you are reading the wrong lilo doco. I have sent the lilo
> micro-howto to linux-newbie about 57 times the last week. You can look
> for it at
I read the looong lilo doc, the one in /usr/docs/lilo*/README.
>
>
> http://nwonknu.org/micro-howtos/
>
> It will tell you that the definitive documentation for lilo is the
> README with the lilo source, usually also to be found in
> /usr/doc[s]/lilo*/README.
>
> If you will show me /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf for however many linux
> systems you are trying to boot, and whatever else common sense may
> suggest to you I will try to be a little more helpful.
Since I retried the installation again with a different partition, things
have changed and I cannot send you those. But, here's what I have for
lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hdb1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
linear (I also tried without this, and with lba32)
disk=dev/hdb
sectors=63
heads=255
cylinders=1216
image=/boot/vmlinuz....
label=linux
initd=/boot/initrd...
read-only
root=/dev/hdb10
other=....
I cannot give what fstab looks like for my current state (because I have to
reinstall the thing), but this is what I tried last time:
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 40 Megs
/dev/hdb5 swap ~300Megs
/dev/hdb6 / ext2 rest of it (~9Megs)
Thanks for the help.
>
> Output of fdisk -l might help.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> Lawson
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