Richard wrote:

Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 Will anyone tell me the answer or at least point me to something that will give the answer??

I had a similar problem in April. AFAIK the warning is not serious, but just indicates the BIOS is old. Mine was 1996 and I had some trouble setting a CHS geometry that would make it accept a 40GB disk. You can get rid of the message by putting nowarn in /etc/lilo.conf. nowarn boot = /dev/hda ... I think the real problem was with kdm, which used lilo -q to give reboot options. Without nowarn, you could shut down but not reboot from kdm. JDL

Richard [ Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:55:31 -0500]:

Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80

Will anyone tell me the answer or at least point me to something that will give the answer??

This is nothing to worry about. These two BIOS functions are *bound* to give differing geometries for large discs. Function 8 is the original function to get the drive geometry. As always in the history of the PC, the format choosen to represent geometry data can't represent todays large disks. That's why function 0x48 was introduced which returns data in format suitable for todays large disks. It is even documented that the data returned by the two functions will not match for disks beyond a certain size. So, all in all, there is no inconsistency and probably only the maintainer of lilo knows why lilo warns in this case. Philipp PS For a more detailed documentation read Ralph Browns interrupt list, available from the net. -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth@t-link.de