From: skempegs@minnie.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Georgios Skempes) Subject: Problems with LILO on Harddisk with more than 1024 Cylinders. Date: 1 Feb 1993 09:38:46 GMT
Hello. I have a problem with LILO 0.8. I use LINUX 0.99 patch level 4.
My Computer is a 486DX50 with a MR-BIOS. My Harddisk is an Seagate ST 1239 A
with 1272 Cylinders, 9 Heads and 36 Sectors/Track. These are also my settings
in the BIOS. LILO says that it doesn't support more than 1023 Cylinders
(limit by the BIOS), but my MR-BIOS supports a translating mode which I have
turned on. MS-DOS, MS-WINDOWS and OS/2 2.0 with HPFS are working properly.
LINUX does also work properly, because I have installed it on the first 100
Cylinders of my Harddisk, but I must boot from a floppy-disk.
I have tried to edit the sourcecode of LILO and set the setting for the
maximum Cylinders up to 1300. Then I compiled it, but it didn't work.
At Boottime there was only a LI on the screen and my System hanged up.
Can anybody help me?
My e-mail adress is: skempegs@mickey.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de