Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.

1997-04-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 25, 1997 at 02:14:27PM -0400, Rick Jones wrote: Errr...I don't trust LBA. I ran LBA for several months and began to see a little corruption in my file system which began to propigate. Even though e2fsck came up clean programs began reporting missing files but an ls -al would show

Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.

1997-04-25 Thread Richard Sharman
Rick Jones writes: New BIOS may support cylinders higher than 1023, but old BIOS doesn't. Lilo may not make a distinction. I think you should check again what cylinder hda2 starts on. The important fact is where the disk blocks for your *kernel* are. With a large disk people often

Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.

1997-04-25 Thread tgakem
I moved all my files from hda1 to hda2 with the kernel being the last file moved. So ofcourse it is beyond the 1023 line. That would explain it. My mind is going and I'm only 32. Since I'm going to repartition this again I should give in and split it across partitions. You have a good

Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.

1997-04-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 24, 1997 at 02:44:08PM -0400, Rick Jones wrote: I moved all my files from hda1 to hda2 with the kernel being the last file moved. So ofcourse it is beyond the 1023 line. That would explain it. My mind is going and I'm only 32. Errr, so what? My root partition starts after an

Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.

1997-04-25 Thread Rick Jones
Errr...I don't trust LBA. I ran LBA for several months and began to see a little corruption in my file system which began to propigate. Even though e2fsck came up clean programs began reporting missing files but an ls -al would show the file in the right place. I don't know if it was LBA that

Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.

1997-04-24 Thread Rick Jones
I moved all my files from hda1 to hda2 with the kernel being the last file moved. So ofcourse it is beyond the 1023 line. That would explain it. My mind is going and I'm only 32. Since I'm going to repartition this again I should give in and split it across partitions. You have a good layout