Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 May 1996 11:39:09 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Mark \"blkstang\" breuer" <> | Subject | 1.3.98 bug |
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I started having problems with my lilo getting bad geometry errors, and then I noticed my partition table was getting differnent physical logical endings in fdisk. I went so far as to fdisk the drive, rewrite the partition table, format it and installed RedHat 3.0.3 instead of Slack 2.2.0. The partition table and lilo worked just great under 1.2.13, but when I compiled and booted 1.99.6 i noticed the same problems back to haunt me. I remembered that the problems started when I was running the mid to late 1.3.9x kernels. So I grabbed the source for 1.3.94, and started compiling, and booting untill I started having problems, which was at 1.3.98. The problem is only on /dev/sda which is a 1.0 gig Quantom Fireball scsi-II
in 1.3.98 I get these errors: [root@blkstang /root]# lilo -v LILO version 17, Copyright 1992-1995 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda Merging with /boot/boot.b Device 0x0802: Got bad geometry 63/0/132
[root@blkstang /root]# fdisk /dev/sda You must set heads. You can do this from the extra functions menu.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 0 heads, 63 sectors, 132 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 64 33 67584 33776 82 Linux swap /dev/sda2 1 67585 1638400 785408 83 Linux native /dev/sda3 * 1 1638401 2134016 247808 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
here is the Kernel configuration I'm running: # Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit # Loadable module support CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y CONFIG_M586=y # Floppy, IDE, and other block devices CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=y CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m CONFIG_PPP=y # ISDN subsystem # Filesystems CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_SOUND=y
Here is a run down of my Hardware: CPU/MB: Pentium 133 AP5C/P mother board
scsi devices aha 1522 Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL1080S Rev: 1Q09 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM CDR-210P Rev: 1.0 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 01 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: CDC Model: 94181-15 Rev: 0293 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
video: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: Cirrus CL-GD5429 Memory: 1024 Kbytes RAMDAC: Cirrus Logic Built-in 15/16/24-bit DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
Sound: SoundBlaster Awe 32 with memory extended to 2 meg
Modem: Zoom 28.8 278
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