Re: Lilo on dell 7500 - disk geom
OK I've been hearing that flame recently, maybe I'll take listen to it
more.
The problem is that my disk geometry is set to 240 heads 63 sectors and
1299 cylinders. I would rather not change this manually.
My swap part starts at 566 and ends at 601.
My linux partition starts at cylinder 602 and ends at 1299.
I guess that the boot block was installed at some point beyond the
1024th cylinder.
Is that what's happening?
During installation I was asked if i wanted to create a Linux FS at the
beginning of the free space or at the end. By choosing install at the
end I was able to make the partition larger. Is this because by
installing at the beginning of the free space it could only use up to
1024 cylinders?
Thanks,
Chris
Greg Woods wrote:
>
> One tiny flame: read the documentation. From the LILO "README" file in
> /usr/doc:
>
> LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
> loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
> geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
> installer.
>
> Sometimes you can solve this with the "linear" keyword in your lilo.conf
> file. This can also be caused if your kernel is sitting on your disk
> beyond cylinder 1024. If that's the case, the only solution is to
> repartition your disk or find a way to store the kernel in a partition
> that is closer to the beginning of the disk. There may also be some
> games you can play with the BIOS to remap the disk geometry, but messing
> around with this if you don't know what you are doing can render your
> system unbootable.
>
> --Greg
>
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