Re: Lilo..

[Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>]

"matthew.r.pavlovich.1" wrote:
>I am getting a quirky bug with lilo.  I have a 4gig Wide SCSI drive that
>is set to scsi id 0.  I can partition the disk, write to the disk, read,
>mount it as /, but I cannot boot from it (The boot flag is set on the
>first primary partition). I have an adaptec 2940UW controller w/ 2.0.33.
>Lilo runs correctly, and the light flashes on the drive, but at boot it
>just hangs..not even a 'Li'.  I was wondering if anyone has seen a similar
>problem with lilo and large drives, or lilo and adaptec 2940's.  Lilo
>works correctly with another hard drive, that is a 2gig and on the narrow
>bus.  
>

I had the same problem some time ago (Adaptec card, I don't remember the
model). I solved it by disabling the "Extended translation mode for big
disks" in the adaptec BIOS and adding the "linear" option to lilo.config.
I hope that helps.

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Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es


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