On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Anthony Green wrote:
> Hey all ..
>
> Was wondering if any of you could help with the following lilo wierdness
It's not lilo wierdness. It's BIOS braindeadedness.
> Just installed a new harddrive and new clean Debian install. Although
> configuring Lilo ... when my pc boots all I get is "LI" of the usual
> "LILO:" prompt and lilo just halts.
>
> My /hda1 partition is DOS .. so I put in a DOS bootdisk ... fdisk /mbr
> to clean the mbr and then tried resetting up lilo again from linux (via
> bootdisk) and same thing happened.
>
> My Linux / partition is on /dev/hdd1 .. and when using fdisk to view the
> partition table it gave me a warning re lilo may not work with it due to
> cylinders > 1024? But my old hd had 4000+ cylinders and it worked fine ..
> .. lilo is installed on /dev/hda though so it shouldnt matter i thought.
lilo is installed on /dev/hda, but it needs to read, via the bios, your
kernel of /dev/hdd. And /dev/hdd (that's bios drive 0x83) is not available
until linux is actually running.
Stick your kernel on a file system on /dev/hda and you'll be right.
> Here follows some additional info .. stats and conf ..
>
> if anyone has any ideas I'd be greatful.
>
> >cat lilo.conf
> # LILO configuration file
> # generated by 'liloconfig'
> #
> # Start LILO global section
> boot=/dev/hda
> compact
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> delay=20
> # End LILO global section
> # Linux bootable partition config begins
> image=/vmlinuz
> root=/dev/hdd1
> label=Linux
> read-only# Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
> # Linux bootable partition config ends
> # DOS bootable partition config begins
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=Dos
> table=/dev/hda
> # DOS bootable partition config ends
>
> >dmesg |grep -i hd
> hda: Maxtor 7850 AR, 814MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=827/32/63
> hdb: WDC AC31600H, 1549MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=787/64/63, DMA
> hdc: QUANTUM SIROCCO2550A, 2445MB w/75kB Cache, CHS=4969/16/63, DMA
> hdd: FUJITSU MPE3136AT, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, DMA
>
>
> >fdisk /dev/hda
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 827 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 488 491872+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda2 489 519 31248 82 Linux swap
>
> Command (m for help): q
>
> >fdisk /dev/hdd
>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 16383.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdd1 1 2032 1024096+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdd2 2033 3048 512064 83 Linux
> /dev/hdd3 3049 4064 512064 83 Linux
> /dev/hdd4 4065 16383 6208776 5 Extended
> /dev/hdd5 4065 5080 512032+ 83 Linux
>
> Command (m for help): q
>
>
> When I try and run "lilo" i get the following warning errors :
>
> >lilo
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
> Added Linux *
> Added Dos
>
>
> Thanks in advance ..
>
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