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SubjectRe: linux-2.3.19
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Hi,

> <joerg.stroettchen@arcormail.de> said:
>
> > a bootsector written by lilo on a 2.3.19-system fails to work when the
> > machine boots next time ("LI.."). 2.3.18ac10 worked fine.
>
> Try again. This has happened to me at random a few times with different
> kernels, running lilo again always fixed it.

It will not.
I also observe this problem. It seems to be related to logical geometry
misdetection for non-primary IDE in 2.3.19:

: Linux dom 2.3.19 #1 Tue Oct 5 23:06:07 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
: /proc/ide/hda/geometry
: physical 8960/15/63
: logical 527/255/63
: /proc/ide/hdc/geometry
: physical 8896/15/63
: logical 8896/15/63
: /proc/ide/hdd/geometry
: physical 1654/16/63
: logical 1654/16/63

: Linux (none) 2.3.17 #9 Tue Sep 7 22:10:48 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
: /proc/ide/hda/geometry
: physical 8960/15/63
: logical 527/255/63
: /proc/ide/hdc/geometry
: physical 8896/15/63
: logical 523/255/63
: /proc/ide/hdd/geometry
: physical 1654/16/63
: logical 827/32/63

hda and hdc are registered in BIOS with LBA translation enabled.
hdd is not registered in BIOS.

Andrzej
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