Re: tlug: LILO Vs. 1024??

[Rex Walters <rex@example.com>]

On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 09:41:35AM +0900, Scott Stone wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Rex Walters wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 12:33:22AM +0900, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> > > 
> > > Without the floppy, it just sits there,stuck.  Never gets to LILO.
> > 
> > What does your lilo.conf look like?  Have you tried the "linear" option.
> > Be sure to rerun lilo if you change anything.
> > 
> > Are you using some sort of multi-boot manager (system commander or
> > somesuch) or are you jumping directly to lilo from the MBR?
> > 
> > > LBA mode is enabled and fdisk now reports the 6.4 GB disk as being 787
> > > cyclinders times the unlikely head count of 0
> >                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > This can't be right.  Something is very wrong. 
> 
> It could be rolling over the maximum limit of what fdisk thinks the
> maximum number of heads should be...?
> 
> On a maxtor 8.4GB EIDE, I get:
> 
> Without LBA:
> 	16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
> 
> With LBA:
> 	255 heads, 63 sectors, 1021 cylinders

16 or 255 are normal.  Zero is Abbie something (apologies to Mel
Brooks).  

For an ATA drive not using LBA (or "Large") BIOS translations, the
number of heads will *always* be 16.  Regardless of what you're using
num-cyls * num-heads * num-sec/track * 512 bytes/sec is the total
available space in the drive.  Zero for any of these is A Bad Thing (tm).

What exactly do you have in your bios settings, and what exactly do
fdisk and boot messages say the size and c/h/s are for your drive,
Jonathan?

Regards,
-- 
REx
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