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Joe...
> When I ran lilo, I received amessage I've never seen before:
> Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
> but it was followed with the "Adding linux*" etc. messages.
>
seen it I see it all the time.. it meanse the OS has recognized another disk
as the primary drive, possible there exists an /dev/hda ? or some drive on my
system hda is NT drive and hdb is linux drive, thous I have not used the nt
drive in a while..
it may cause problems if you are using NT as your bootloader on another
drive...
>
> Upon rebooting all I got in place of the LILO prompt was 'LI' and the
> computer hung. I tried several hardware/BIOS changes (moving the HDD to
> the other channel, changing the channel boot order), but always got the
> same result. When I tried my boot disk, it too had a problem: I had
> specified the wrong root partition.
>
lilo is not installed correctly check the lilo faq...
>
> Fortunately I have access to another computer (which unfortunately runs
> Win98) and was able to download a boot image from slackware.com.
> I managed to mount my root partition although for some reason, mount
> complained that the filesystem was unmounted in read-write mode (or
> something to that effect). This was disconcerting since I did a proper
> shutdown after my kernel rebuild.
>
again lilo is not installed correctly..
>
> Upon running lilo now, I get a much more frightening error sequence:
>
> Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
> Warning: device 0x0803 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (3203 > 1023)
>
seen that too.. make sure your BIOS is set up to use large disks (LBA) do not
set the cylinders, you may have to pass a command line option to the kernel
telling it the sectors, heads, cylinders
>
> It looks pretty bad, but for the life of me, I can't think of what might
> have happened. Running LILO was the only thing I did after kernel
> compilation and before rebooting. Other information about the system
> follows:
>
try using cfdisk instead of fdisk not that that shoudl matter much.. it looks
like you are not using LBA....
also it looks as thoug you have a 24.1 Gig drive? you may need to partition
this drive, not sure what the max size hd lilo can reside on.. the 1024
.............
>
> Dual PIII-450
> Gigabyte GA-BXDS motherboard with on board Adaptec 7895 dual channel UW
> SCSI. On channel A, ID0 (68-pin)
> Teac CDR56S SCSI CD-R on channel A, ID1 (50-pin)
> Quantum XP34300W Wide SCSI-2 4.1Gb HDD
> Netgear FA310TX 10/100 PCI ethernet
> ATI Graphics Pro Turbo 1600 PCI video card
> USR Sporster 33.6 ISA PnP modem
>
> Notable kernel params:
> MTRR BIOS fix
> RTC support
> SCSI HDD, SCSI CD-ROM
> Tulip PCI network driver
>
> My system is usable, although I'm afraid to try rebooting it again for
> fear I'll never get any of my data back. Please email me at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll be happy to provide you with any additional
> info. Again sorry for being off topic, but I hope someone here can
> untangle this mess.
>
> J. Adam Butts
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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