Re: Lilo..

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Wed 29 Apr 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:

> "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.

I still saw problems last weekend with mbr.b not being written to
/dev/sda when installing frozen with the 04-11 boot-floppies. I
did that by hand "dd if=/boot/mbr.b of=/dev/sda bs=444" and after that I
could boot from the disk.

And yes, I did answer 'y' to the question "install a boot block" or
whatever the exact message is.

Note that this only happens on a virgin disk or a disk that otherwise
doesn't have any remains of a previous installation on it (e.g. dos; the
dos primary bootstrap also works).


Paul Slootman
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