LILO probs

LILO probs

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

Please see below.
Rene (below) have tried to help me out here, but I still can't boot. / is on 
hda5 and /boot is on hda1.

Any suggestions?

thanks

roy

On Sunday 06 October 2002 23:37, Rene Herman wrote:
> On Sunday 06 October 2002 21:59, you wrot
>
> > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38792 cylinders
> >
> > Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl    Start     Size ID
> >  1 80   1   1    0  15  63  609       63   614817 83
> >  2 00   0   1  610  15  63 1023   614880 10486224 83
> >  3 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 11101104  4194288 83
> >  4 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 15295392 23806944 0f
> >  5 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  2097585 83
> >  6 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  1048257 83
> >  7 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  1048257 82
> >  8 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63 19612593 83
>
> Looks perfectly normal. That "1023" is simply because the cylinder field is
> held in a 10-bit field, giving the famous 1024 cylinder-limit. With LBA
> addressing all partitions are created like this.
>
> I can see absolutely no reason why things wouldn't work. If you use lba32,
> you should be able to have /boot anywhere on the disk. /dev/hda1 falls
> completely within the 1024 limit, so if you put /boot there, you should
> even be able to boot *without* lba32. Example minimal /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> ===
> boot=/dev/hda
> lba32
> prompt
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> 	root=/dev/root
> 	label=linux
> ===
>
> You do have boot=/dev/hda don't you? Not /dev/hda1 or something silly like
> that?
>
> Rene.

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Re: LILO probs

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

On Monday 07 October 2002 10:02, Hacksaw wrote:
> That partition table does not look normal to me. What was it produced with?

linux fdisk ... or ... no - it was the redhat installation. point is - the 
disk was first installed in an old P90 whose BIOS found the disk as a 
1024/16/63 (504 meg) disk, but linux overrode that, allowing me to use the 
whole disk. I settled with boot from floppy, but I can't use that now.

roy
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Re: LILO probs

[Hacksaw]

> > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38792 cylinders
> >
> > Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl    Start     Size ID
> >  1 80   1   1    0  15  63  609       63   614817 83
> >  2 00   0   1  610  15  63 1023   614880 10486224 83
> >  3 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 11101104  4194288 83
> >  4 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 15295392 23806944 0f
> >  5 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  2097585 83
> >  6 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  1048257 83
> >  7 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  1048257 82
> >  8 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63 19612593 83

It's a very confusing table, but more importantly it seems to imply that 
/dev/hda{5,6,7,8} all start at cylinder 63, and end in a variety of places.

If this is an accurate representation of the partition table on this disk, I 
would suggest you recover what you can from it, and start over.

Better would be to have a look at the partition table with something that can 
fix it, like fdisk, sfdisk or parted. Example:

sfdisk -l /dev/hda


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Re: LILO probs

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

On Monday 07 October 2002 10:26, Hacksaw wrote:
> > > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38792 cylinders
> > >
> > > Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl    Start     Size ID
> > >  1 80   1   1    0  15  63  609       63   614817 83
> > >  2 00   0   1  610  15  63 1023   614880 10486224 83
> > >  3 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 11101104  4194288 83
> > >  4 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 15295392 23806944 0f
> > >  5 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  2097585 83
> > >  6 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  1048257 83
> > >  7 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  1048257 82
> > >  8 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63 19612593 83
>
> It's a very confusing table, but more importantly it seems to imply that
> /dev/hda{5,6,7,8} all start at cylinder 63, and end in a variety of places.
>
> If this is an accurate representation of the partition table on this disk,
> I would suggest you recover what you can from it, and start over.
>
> Better would be to have a look at the partition table with something that
> can fix it, like fdisk, sfdisk or parted. Example:
>
> sfdisk -l /dev/hda

hm

root@pbx /usr/src/asterisk># sfdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 38792 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+    609     610-   307408+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2        610   11012   10403   5243112   83  Linux
/dev/hda3      11013   15173    4161   2097144   83  Linux
/dev/hda4      15174   38791   23618  11903472    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5      15174+  17254    2081-  1048792+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6      17255+  18294    1040-   524128+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7      18295+  19334    1040-   524128+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8      19335+  38791   19457-  9806296+  83  Linux

just lists the table

but - it works, but I need to boot off a floppy, and I really don't want to 
start over reinstalling this.

any ideas how I can make LILO/GRUB work with this?

roy
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Re: LILO probs

[jbradford]

> > > > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38792 cylinders
> > > >
> > > > Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl    Start     Size ID
> > > >  1 80   1   1    0  15  63  609       63   614817 83
> > > >  2 00   0   1  610  15  63 1023   614880 10486224 83
> > > >  3 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 11101104  4194288 83
> > > >  4 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 15295392 23806944 0f
> > > >  5 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  2097585 83
> > > >  6 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  1048257 83
> > > >  7 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  1048257 82
> > > >  8 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63 19612593 83
> >
> > It's a very confusing table, but more importantly it seems to imply that
> > /dev/hda{5,6,7,8} all start at cylinder 63, and end in a variety of places.
> >
> > If this is an accurate representation of the partition table on this disk,
> > I would suggest you recover what you can from it, and start over.
> >
> > Better would be to have a look at the partition table with something that
> > can fix it, like fdisk, sfdisk or parted. Example:
> >
> > sfdisk -l /dev/hda
> 
> hm
> 
> root@pbx /usr/src/asterisk># sfdisk -l /dev/hda
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 38792 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *      0+    609     610-   307408+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda2        610   11012   10403   5243112   83  Linux
> /dev/hda3      11013   15173    4161   2097144   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4      15174   38791   23618  11903472    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5      15174+  17254    2081-  1048792+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6      17255+  18294    1040-   524128+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda7      18295+  19334    1040-   524128+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda8      19335+  38791   19457-  9806296+  83  Linux
> 
> just lists the table
> 
> but - it works, but I need to boot off a floppy, and I really don't want to 
> start over reinstalling this.
> 
> any ideas how I can make LILO/GRUB work with this?

When you say, 'boot off a floppy', what do you mean:

1. Boot a raw kernel image from a floppy

or

2. Boot a floppy containing LILO/GRUB?

If you mean 1, you are accessing the hard disk with the BIOS.

If you mean 2, you are never accessing the hard disk with the BIOS.

John.

Re: LILO probs

[Denis Vlasenko]

On 7 October 2002 06:26, Hacksaw wrote:
> > > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38792 cylinders
> > >
> > > Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl    Start     Size ID
> > >  1 80   1   1    0  15  63  609       63   614817 83
> > >  2 00   0   1  610  15  63 1023   614880 10486224 83
> > >  3 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 11101104  4194288 83
> > >  4 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 15295392 23806944 0f
> > >  5 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  2097585 83
> > >  6 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  1048257 83
> > >  7 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63  1048257 82
> > >  8 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023       63 19612593 83
>
> It's a very confusing table, but more importantly it seems to imply
> that /dev/hda{5,6,7,8} all start at cylinder 63, and end in a variety
> of places.

It's a sector offset, not a cylinder.
Also extended partition method of storing offsets is 'interesting' :-(
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