[Q] LILO will not install

[Jozef Skvarcek <jozef@fatra.ph.hunter.cuny.edu>]

Hello,

I have problems installing LILO, namely I don't know how to specify
the disk geometry in the /etc/lilo.conf. Here is my situation:
I have one UDMA disk connected to Promise Ultra33 controler, 
the controler shows up as ide2, the disk as /dev/hde.
The log output from the boot message is bellow.
I have the root partition /dev/hde1 (~50MB) which should be bellow
1024 cylinder. The output from `fdisk' is bellow. The problems is
that LILO can't handle device /dev/hde1 when trying to install.
According the LILO's user's manual the explicit disk geometry has
to be specified in /etc/lilo.conf, however, when I use:
disk = /dev/hde
	bios = 0x80
	sectors = 63
	heads = 128
	cylinders = 847
	partition = /dev/hde1
		start = 1
boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
linear
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
	label=linux
	root=/dev/hde1
	read-only

then LILO installs but then it makes only up to `LI' when trying
to boot. I think the value for `start' paramater above is wrong.
The documentation says that the value specifies the zero-based
number of the start sector of the partition (/dev/hde1 in this case).
I do not know what is meant by `zero-based number'. Perhaps, someone
could explain that to me. Also, what should be the value for the
partition /dev/hde2?

Here is the extract from /var/log/messages:
Feb  8 20:18:51 comlab3 kernel: ide: Promise Technology IDE Ultra-DMA 33 
	on PCI bus 0 function 104
Feb  8 20:18:51 comlab3 kernel: ide: Enabling DMA for Promise Technology IDE 
	Ultra-DMA 33 on PCI bus 0 function 104, port 0xff80
Feb  8 20:18:51 comlab3 kernel:     ide2: BM-DMA at 0xff80-0xff87
Feb  8 20:18:51 comlab3 kernel:     ide3: BM-DMA at 0xff88-0xff8f
Feb  8 20:18:51 comlab3 kernel: hdc: FX001DE, ATAPI CDROM drive
Feb  8 20:18:51 comlab3 kernel: hde: FUJITSU MPA3035ATU, 3337MB w/0kB Cache, 
CHS=6781/16/63, UDMA

Then it gives different CHS:
Feb  8 20:18:51 comlab3 kernel: Partition check:
Feb  8 20:18:51 comlab3 kernel:  hde: [PTBL] [847/128/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 
	< hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 >

This is the extract from `fdisk -l /dev/hde':
Disk /dev/hde: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 847 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1             1       13    52384+  83  Linux native
/dev/hde2   *        14      313  1209600    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hde3           314      329    64512   82  Linux swap
etc.

this is from `fdisk -l -u /dev/hde':
Disk /dev/hde: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 847 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1            63   104831    52384+  83  Linux native
/dev/hde2   *    104832  2524031  1209600    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hde3       2524032  2653055    64512   82  Linux swap
etc.

Thank you,

Jozef Skvarcek _______________________________________________________________
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy              |   jozef@fatra.ph.hunter.cuny.edu
Hunter College, City University of New York |                     212-772-4032