Re: lilo warning
L Vogtmann, 2002-Jan-01 22:40 -0800:
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> On Tuesday 01 January 2002 09:06 pm, Jeff wrote:
> > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
> > > head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
> > > Added Linux
> > > Added LinuxOLD
> > > Added Windows *
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> > I have found that running lilo does function in righting to mbr,
> > even though the error message appears.
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> AFAIK this is only an annoyance, LILO is just testing your BIOS for large
> disk support. If those two functions return different numbers, then it has
> to do a little extra work.
>
> As you said, it still works. It is only a warning. (dpkg is probably just
> smart enough to suppress the warning message.)
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> vmann
Interesting...however, my bios does support large disks, it's a
fairly current main board. Could this mean that the BIOS is
returning an incorrect value to the query or perhaps my BIOS is
not configured properly? I'll have to check the config later.
thanks,
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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