A Note from the LILO Developer on Warnings
Folks,
I've noticed that no-one knows anything about a common LILO warning,
so I went straight to the horse's mouth. So everyone has the
information I'm just going to send this verbatim to this list.
Simon
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Subject: Re: Meaning of Undocumented LILO Warning
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At 10:07 PM 05/26/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>John,
>
>The following warning is issued from my LILO version. The warning is
>not very explanatory, and (even though it's a warning) evokes fear,
>uncertainty and doubt.
>
>Warning: Int 0x13 function 8unction 8 and function 0x48 return different
>head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
I've answered this one on the Newsgroups.
1. It is a warning, and it means literally what it says: two bios calls
which are expected to return the same values, instead, return different
results.
2. There is nothing within LILO you can do about it.
3. As with other warnings, it can be suppressed with "nowarn" (-w).
4. The good news is that EDD function 48h is supported; meaning that EDD
packet calls are probably supported, too, and the default "lba32"
addressing will work.
>Would you either: document the warning, suppress it or change it to
>explain what the user can do to fix the problem it suggests? If you
>would like to explain it I can probably come up with text for you.
>
>I'd also like to be able to post something to
>debian-user@debian.lists.org about this, as it seems to be a FAQ.
>
>The version of LILO I'm using is:
>
>LILO version 22.2, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
>Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 John Coffman
>Released 05-Feb-2002 and compiled at 20:57:26 on Apr 13 2002.
This warning first appeared in version 22 (22.0).
Within the LILO distribution there is no comprehensive list of warnings,
cautions, or fatal errors, with suggested remedies. You suggest a good
project for my TODO list.
Debian maintains better than average support pages, and I hope you will add
my comments to them.
- --John
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