Thanks for your response. I'm sorry my message wasn't clear enough.
The problem *is* with the floppy boot. The lilo boot is OK as my lilo
resides on another smaller, hard drive and points to the image on the
11.5 gig drive.
I'm still using this set up as a work around when I initially came
across this problem as my machine is a semi-production type machine.
What's interesting is boot floppies that come with suse hangs right when
it tries to partition check this drive. I've used mulinux which just
'jumps' over this if I remember correctly there were error messages as
well.
This happens only at boot up so something in the image itself must be
different. again not because when I install this stock image it works.
I don't see suse supporting this big drive officially.
excerpts of dmesg of the working version:
-------------------------------------------
....
Linux version 2.0.35 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #2
Wed Aug
19 11:33:27 MEST 1998
.....
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf0f0-0xf0f7
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf0f8-0xf0ff
hda: WDC AC22100H, 2014MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63, DMA
hdb: Maxtor 91190D7, 11349MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=23059/16/63, DMA
hdc: FX120T, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: CONNER CTT8000-A, ATAPI TAPE drive, DMA
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
......
.......
Partition check:
hda: [PTBL] [1023/64/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
hdb: [PTBL] [1446/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 >
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 2600kB pipeline, 310ms
tDSC, DMA
-----------------------------------------
the floppy boot hangs at "hdb:" with the error msg posted earlier.
Thanks
-Deep
zentara wrote:
>
> Pradeep Sagam wrote:
>
> > What is the difference between the one that's on the floppy and the one
> > eventually installed from it on the hard drive.
>
> Well the one on the floppy boots, because the image can be found,
> wheras the kernel on the hard drive is failing probably because
> lilo can't find it, or in your case the hard drive isn't
> being properly found.
>
> It sounds like you may have the "no-autotune ide" problem,
> but I'm not sure. You may just have the 1024 cylinder problem.
>
> Send more info, like which drive is /dev/hda. /dev/hdb, etc.
>
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