Re: tlug: TurboLinux changes no. of cylinders

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Thu, 13 May 1999, Glenn Evanish wrote:

> I put TL in the extended behind Win 98.  Everything goes fine until I tell

I've never done an install  only into the extended, but I suppose it
should work.

> it where to put LILO.  It refuses to go on either the root partition or a
> floppy, and puts me in a loop until I give up and abort the install.  When
> I re-attemp the installation, fdisk tells me that I've now got 10600 or so
> cylinders instead of my former 662 or so, and that LILO and other OS will
> probably have problems.  

It sounds like your BIOS is not set to use LBA mode with that disk.  Try
turning that on and see if the problem clears up.  What's basically
happening here is that LILO needs to be in the first 1024 cyclinders (I
*do* hope that will some day be fixed), and if you do install LILO under
that setup it will probably hang on boot.

> BTW, the HD I'm using is a 5.1gb on a machine that originally came with a
> 1.2gb.  This presented no problems with the two languages of Windows that

Are you sure your BIOS can handle disks that large?  How old is this
machine?

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