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Hi,
I'm sure this is a FAQ-Question, but I can't solve it...
I have a hard disk with at least 1047 cylinders, and LinuX starts well if
I use loadlin with DOS. But if I try to use LILO, it just brings me 'LI'
and the a lot of '0101010101', but nothing more.
What have I to do?
fdisk sais, the hard disk has 1047 cylinder, 16 heads, and 63 sectors.
-----cut fdisk-----
Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 1047 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 508 256000+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(253, 31, 63) should be (253, 15, 63)
/dev/hda2 509 509 1016 256032 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 1017 1017 1047 15624 82 Linux swap
----cut fdisk-----
any suggestions?
I think the problem is that Linux is configuring your disk with a
different number of cylinders than is DOS. My experience with DOS is
that it will simulate a different geometry in order to keep the
number of cylinders below 1024; in your case I bet it is using 523
cylinders, 32 heads, and 63 sectors (check this using DOS fdisk). If
you force Linux to use the same geometry, it will work; you can do
this with a Lilo command line parameter: "hd=523,32,63".