From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: really odd disk problem.. Date: 29 Sep 1992 20:10:40 GMT
In article <92273.144940CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu>, Charles Fee <CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
|> Over the weekend, I upgraded my meager 386sx-16 to an AMD 386/40 with 8 megs
|> of ram, all seemingly went well, until I try to install Lilo..
|>
|> According to fdisk, my drive is
|>
|> 832 sectors x 6 cylinders x 33 sectors = approx 80 megs
|>
|> I know for a fact that the drive is 124 megs (Maxtor 7120a)
|>
|> According to the installation, in order to get the disk to work with dos, it
|> suggested a user definable drive of:
|>
|> 936 X 16 cyclinders X 17 sectors = 124 megs
|>
|> All works fine, no matter what happens.. I've compiled 0.97pl6 from this
|> drive, along with lilo, tin, and minicom (today..) when I try to install
|> lilo, it appears to work, but rebooting does nothing, and I am forced to
|> boot off floppy..
|>
|>
In LILO, you can overwrite disk geometry. Just put it in /etc/lilo/disktab.
H.J.