Re: tlug: LILO Vs. 1024??

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, on a big drive that can work.  I usually do one partition per drive
myself, but, that's just how I'm used to doing things.

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