tlug: Lilo hosed

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

I installed TurboLinux 3.0J-beta 3 on it's own disk in my Linux box and told
it not to install LILO and didn't set up any of the partitions for my main
system in /etc/fstab at all, so nothing *should* have been touched.
However, on boot lilo freezes up after printing LI.  Right now, I'm booting
from a sysboot disk.

Running lilo now generates this message:
Device 0x0302: Got bad geometry 63/0/787

Fdisk does report 0 heads for /dev/hda, and it reports that heads should be
set.  Apparently, some way, some how, something got hosed when I put the
3.0J beta on /dev/hdd.  

What incantation do I need to use to fix this?

Thanks,

Jonathan


This is the partition table of /dev/hda:

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   263088   131512+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda2            1   263089   526176   131544   83  Linux native
/dev/hda3            1   526177 12692736  6083280    5  Extended
/dev/hda5           64   526240  1141056   307408+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda6         1008  1141120  1755936   307408+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda7         1008  1756000  3804192  1024096+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda8         1008  3804256 10767456  3481600+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda9         1008 10767520 12692736   962608+  83  Linux native

This is the partition table from /dev/hdd:

Disk /dev/hdd: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1            1        1       33    66496+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdd2           34       34      621  1185408   83  Linux native



This is the lilo.conf (unchanged) from the 2.0J system:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hda2
        read-only

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