Re: 1024 cylinder so far - hde
hi ya
try moving /dev/hde to /dev/hda with the right changes
in /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and re-lilo before booting
- make sure oyu have a bootable floppy first
some bios's does NOT boot off /dev/hde no matter what you do
to it... including threatening to powerit off forever
and/or tossing it out the window or installing windoze on it
( install windoze... didnt boot... ahhh... no wonder...
kinda like the silly non-sense of them installing cdrom as
/dev/hda as default on some giant mail order PCs
and yes... check that you have lba32 in lilo.conf
and maybe change the bios to say "auto" instead of lba
( some disks dont like to be told... it likes to tell what it is )
c ya
alvin
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, nate wrote:
> <quote who="Mauro Romano Trajber">
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have a 30GB HD and i decide install debian (with BF2.4 floppies) in the
> > first partition. There is my HD now:
>
> > Now the problem !
> > When i try to make my system bootable ,LILO doenst install in MBR. The
> > error msg "Your linux partition is above 1024 cylinder ...blablabla" Why?
> > My Linux partition start at cylinder 0!
> > Trying to solve the problem i created a /boot(30MB) partition starting at
> > cylinder 0 and occurs the same error.
> > LBA is ENABLED in BIOS.
> > I will thank any help.
>
> hmm, what kind of disk controller? i would reccomend making a boot disk,
> boot off of it, then once you get into the OS you can tweak lilo.conf
> easier, check lilo.conf be sure it has 'lba32' at the top of it ..
>
> less then a week ago i installed debian 2.2 on my home gateway, on
> a new set of drives, the partition configuration:
>
> Disk /dev/hde: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 193821 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hde1 * 1 29 14584+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hde2 30 193821 97671168 5 Extended
> /dev/hde5 30 192829 97171168+ fd Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/hde6 192830 193821 499936+ 83 Linux
>
>
> i have no problem installing lilo with my root partition
> on /dev/hde5 (actually /dev/md0 which is composed of /dev/hde5
> and /dev/hdf5) my /dev/hde1 is /boot and i have lilo installing
> to /dev/hde
>
> my ide controller is a promise ata/100
>
> but for now i reccomend making a boot disk and getting into the OS
> so you can tweak lilo.conf manually
>
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