Re: tlug: Lilo hosed

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Howard R. Abbey wrote:

> In mail on Re: tlug: Lilo hosed, Rex Walters (rex@example.com) wrote:
> > >>>>> Jonathan Byrne writes:  (on 02 Nov 98)
> > 
> > >                    /dev/hda never had this problem until I installed a
> > > TurboLinux J beta on /dev/hdd (which has nothing but the beta on it), and
> > > then LILO was sick and the head count was getting reported as 0.
> 
> > Sounds like the TL beta mucked with the first few sectors on hda
> > (contains the mbr and partitioning info).
> > 
> > You're definitely well into the twisty passages here.  ...
> 
> Indulge me please.  Before entering this 'twisty passage' unplug the
> IDE cable from hdd, and see if lilo still has fits.  I really find
> it hard to believe / scary that an install would mess with the mbr
> of hda.

I think that when the installer did its fdisk, it reset the heads
parameter on the drive, and that's what broke LILO...

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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