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SubjectRe: lilo problem with 2.1.x kernels
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Thomas "Recent-Mutt-Convert" Vaughan wrote:

Please explain in detail.........I am trying to stand in for Mark and Gadi.

What is the LBA translation that the BIOS reports?
What are you passing through your append="" line in lilo.conf?
Did you setup the driver with a LBA translation when you partitioned?

I have never had lilo or fdisk fail.

> What I have noticed is that the IDE driver for the 2.1.x series is
> associated with fdisk's and lilo's failure to obtain the hard drive's
> real geometry. My hard drive has something like 8390 cylinders, but fdisk
> is all confused about an apparent disagreement between 8390/16 logical
> cylinders and 8390/8 physical cylinders unless I boot with a 2.0.x kernel.
> I believe that lilo also fails with 2.1.x for a similar reason.

Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
Dyer Observatory
Vanderbilt University

Below are fdisk, hdparm, and lilo reports.

root@Orion% fdisk -v
fdisk v2.1 (>4GB)

root@Orion% fdisk
Using /dev/hda as default device!

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 128 1028128+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 129 129 179 409657+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 180 180 332 1228972+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda4 333 333 784 3630690 83 Linux native

root@Orion% hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800, SerialNo=85673149
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=13328/15/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=512, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=81kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast)
CurCHS=13328/15/63, CurSects=12594960
LBA CHS=784/255/63 Remmapping, LBA=yes, LBAsects=12594960
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: sword0 sword1 sword2 mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2

(Modified version of hdparm-3.3 for extra reporting)


root@Orion% lilo -v
LILO version 20, Copyright 1992-1997 Werner Almesberger

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
Added linux *
Boot image: /boot.test/vmlinuz
Added test
Boot image: /boot.91/vmlinuz
Added 91
Boot image: /boot.35/vmlinuz
Added 35
Boot image: /boot.35-J9/vmlinuz
Added J9
Boot image: /boot.36/vmlinuz
Added 36
Boot image: /boot.34/vmlinuz
Added 34
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.



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