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Re: Help with an error message



On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:29:49PM +0200, Xerex wrote:
> Could someone help me out with this message, and do I need to worry about
> it? May it be a mainboard error? I'm using only IDE drives with LBA ...
> 
> bash# mv /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci.bak
> bash# cp bzImage /vmlinuz
> bash# lilo
> Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
> head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
> Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
> head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x81
> Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
> head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x82
> Added Linux *
> Skipping /vmlinuz.old

If at some time you take the HD out of that machine and put it in
another machine, you might have to rerun lilo to get it to boot. Apart
from that, I wouldn't worry.

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