Dave Bresson wrote:
>
> Hmm...i'm guessing at the very least there's a beyond the 1024th cylinder
> issue going on here (LILO can't boot if it's beyond the 1024th cylinder)
>
> dave
>
If that's the problem try the new version of lilo,
ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo/
hope it helps
harald
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The lilo-21.4.2 release fixes problems that have affected a few people:
1. The command line passed to the kernel was truncated at 78 characters
if
the LARGE_EBDA (Extended BIOS Data Area) compile-time option was used.
(With today's big kernels, this was the default.)
2. If both 'linear' and 'compact' were specified, the second stage
loader
would encounter disk I/O error 0x40.
Enhancements include:
3. The boot loader now understands octal. The kernel has always
understood
octal, decimal, and hexadecimal, but prior boot loaders only supported
the
last two.
4. All patches from the RedHat 6.2 distribution have been applied.
This
includes the RAID support.
This version of LILO will boot from partitions beyond the 1024 cylinder
limit. To do this it requires a post-1998 BIOS with support for the EDD
packet call interface. Older systems may employ "soft" BIOS support for
these calls with hard disk boot software such as EZ-DRIVE(tm) or
MaxBlast(tm).
--John Coffman <johninsd@san.rr.com>
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