Re: LILO error with 2.4.3-pre1...

From: Mircea Damian <dmircea@kappa.ro>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: sjhill@cotw.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LILO error with 2.4.3-pre1...
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 23:32:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010304233244.B32142@linux.kappa.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AA19820.6A33E871@cotw.com> <22634.983669972@ocs3.ocs-net>
In-Reply-To: <22634.983669972@ocs3.ocs-net>; from kaos@ocs.com.au on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:39:32PM +1100

On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:39:32PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:19:28 -0600, 
> "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com> wrote:
> >I have no idea why the 1023 limit is coming up considering 2.4.2 and
> >LILO were working just fine together and I have a newer BIOS that has
> >not problems detecting the driver properly. Go ahead, call me idiot :).
> 
> OK, you're an idiot :).  It only worked before because all the files
> that lilo used just happened to be below cylinder 1024.  Your partition
> goes past cyl 1024 and your new kernel is using space above 1024.  Find
> a version of lilo that can cope with cyl >= 1024 (is there one?) or
> move the kernel below cyl 1024.  You might need to repartition your
> disk to get / all below 1024.

Call me idiot too but please explain what is wrong here:

# cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot = /dev/hda
timeout = 150
vga = 4
ramdisk = 0
lba32
append = "hdc=scsi"
prompt

image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2
  root = /dev/hda2
  read-only
  label = Linux

other = /dev/hda3
  label = win
  table = /dev/hda

# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1650 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1        17    136521   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda2            18      1165   9221310   83  Linux
/dev/hda3   *      1166      1650   3895762+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
root@taz:~# lilo -v
LILO version 21.7, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Linux Real Mode Interface library Copyright (C) 1998 Josh Vanderhoof
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 John Coffman
Released 24-Feb-2001 and compiled at 18:31:02 on Mar  3 2001.

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2
Added Linux *
Boot other: /dev/hda3, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b
Device 0x0300: Invalid partition table, 3rd entry
  3D address:     63/254/141 (2281229)
  Linear address: 1/0/1165 (18715725)

Mar  2 20:26:29 taz kernel: hda: IBM-DJNA-371350, ATA DISK drive 
Mar  2 20:26:29 taz kernel: hda: 26520480 sectors (13578 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=1650/255/63 

Is anybody able to explain the error?
That partition contains a valid VFAT partition with win98se installed on it (and it works fine,
ofc if I remove lilo from MBR).

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Mircea Damian
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