Re: tlug: LILO Vs. 1024??

[Rex Walters <rex@example.com>]

On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 10:48:21AM +0900, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:
> 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.

BLEARGH!  Warning Will Robinson!  Danger! Danger!

Do not set the number of heads from the extra functions menu.  You will
confuse things further.  Something is screwy with your bios settings.
Please let us know *exactly* what the "CMOS Setup Screen" or whatever
the you call it shows for that drive.

I *strongly* recommend by the way that you partition this thing into
multiple partitions.  I don't believe in one big ext2 filesystem for all
of your Linux data.

Regards,
-- 
Rex
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