Re: tlug: LILO Vs. 1024??

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

>> > LBA mode is enabled and fdisk now reports the 6.4 GB disk as being 787
>> > cyclinders times the unlikely head count of 0
>>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>It could be rolling over the maximum limit of what fdisk thinks the
>maximum number of heads should be...?

I just telnetted in and ran FDISK and it told me that the head count is unset
and I need to set it from the extra functions menu.  So we know why it says 0
heads, but what value should I go with here?  255, like your 8.4 GB reports,
or something else?

This is the fdisk output:

You must set heads.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 0 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1           64       64   132048    65992+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda2            1   132049 12692736  6280344   83  Linux native

Is it weird for the swap partition to be starting at cyclinder 64?

Thanks,

Jonathan Byrne
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