Re: Booting from an 640MB MO-Disk with LILO?

[Chuan-kai Lin <cklin@oink.cc.ntu.edu.tw>]

reiner <stallus@regio-info.de> wrote:
> ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
> ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
> ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
> Added Linux*
> what does this mean? In trouble with 2048 bytes per sector?

Yep.  BIOS (which LILO uses to load itself and the kernel) does not
like media with 2048 byte sectors.  If you want to boot off MO, then
you must not use the 640MB media --- any smaller ones, from 230MB
to 530MB, will work fine because they all have 1024 byte sectors.

-- Chuan-kai Lin