Re: lilo warning
Jeff, 2001-Dec-30 17:46 -0800:
> I just did an upgrade on my woody machine using
>
> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
>
> and after make a minor mod to my lilo.conf, and running lilo, I
> get the follow error:
>
> Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
> head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
> Added Linux
> Added LinuxOLD
> Added Windows *
>
> I had no problems prior to this upgrade to verion 22.1 and my
> /etc/lilo.conf is as follows:
>
> <bof>
> lba32
> boot=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/hda4
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> prompt
> delay=100
> timeout=100
> vga=ask
> default=Windows
>
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> read-only
>
> image=/vmlinuz.old
> label=LinuxOLD
> read-only
> optional
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=Windows
> <eof>
>
> The minor change I made was 'vga=ask' from 'vga=normal', and
> rebooting proves this change did not take, since I don't get
> asked for a vga mode during boot.
>
> I haven't yet found any answers searching the Internet and
> reading docs. So any help will be appreciated.
To follow up:
I have found that running lilo does function in righting to mbr,
even though the error message appears.
Another thing is that when installing a self-compiled kernel,
created with kernel-package, using dpkg -i, this message does not
appear during the lilo installation phase of the kernel install.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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