Hi, On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Santiago Rodriguez wrote:
But what about all what happens after Lilo? I have installed all SuSe Linux and it seems the only problem I have is with Lilo. I start with a boot disk and after that I have no troubles (by now...). What about all the other operations with files? Why doesn't it run into troubles after?
The Linux kernel does not use the BIOS functions to access the harddisks.
Hubert Mantel wrote:
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.
Hubert -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e