Hi, On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Santiago Rodriguez wrote:
But what is the problem? The BIOS? I have a 2Gb hd and I installed Lilo without problem (in a Pentium motherboard). Why happens the problem about the 1024 cylinders?
Yes, the BIOS is the problem. The BIOS only has 10 Bits for the number of cylinders. When LILO tries to load some data from cylinder 1025, it will get the data from cylinder 1, which is not what you want. There are several workarounds for that problem; the Adaptec SCSI adapters are doing some translation: instead of 2048 cylinders and 32 heads it fakes 1024 cylinders and 64 heads for example.
Thanks.
The Gecko wrote:
Nope... some 800Mb hardrives have more than 1024 cylinders.... I boot my vmlinuz (actually, zImage) off of /usr which on a different harddrive from my /
On 17-Apr-98 Santiago Rodriguez wrote:
I have a problem about that. I am trying to put 'vmlinuz' in '/', but I can't because yast says my partition has more than 1024 cilynders. But it is only 800Mb large. Is it possible? Did I do something wrong? It is a 486DX 33. Bye
gdb@freecar.com wrote:
The only times I got that was when I was trying to boot off of a partition that has more than 1024 cylinders.... It happened on both Red-hat and SuSE... to me..
On 16-Apr-98 Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
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