Re: LILO probs (SOLVED)

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>]

Hi

I hardcoded the actual disk geometry along with disk=0x80 in lilo.conf, and 
now it works ;-)

roy

On Monday 07 October 2002 12:44, jbradford@dial.pipex.com 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?
>
> 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.

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