Re: lilo problem with 2.1.x kernels

Thomas \ (vaughan@bob.nhn.ou.edu)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 22:15:43 -0500

On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 08:26:10AM +1000, Peter Waltenberg wrote:
>
> "Me too", doing a make install of 2.1.117 on 2.1.116
>
> The next boot
>
> LI
>
> Booting off a floppy and re-running lilo and as with the previous
> report all is well again.
>
> That has to be a 2.1.116 (or earlier) bug.

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.

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Thomas E. Vaughan                            vaughan@mail.nhn.ou.edu
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy                 home: (405) 366-8721
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