Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.3.19 | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:13:40 +0038 (MET DST) |
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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 -- ======================================================================= Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz ankry@mif.pg.gda.pl phone (48)(58) 347 14 61 Faculty of Applied Phys. & Math., Technical University of Gdansk
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