[PLUG] LILO information

[Brian Poole]

Hello,

Last I checked you can flip some bit in the BIOS (LBA maybe?) for the
drive so that Linux doesn't see so many cylinders. My 60G drive for
example shows up to Linux as having 7473 cylinders and my 30G drive says
it has 3736. These are both Maxtors so your results may vary, but 30k
cylinders seems a bit excessive to me, although I just may be out of
touch with reality. I believe all of this is explained in the Large
disk-HOWTO.

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html


As for documentation on the progress of the bootloader, a quick search on
google reveals:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/a1371.html

Remember, search engines are your friends.


-b


On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Andy Hourselt wrote:

> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 15:01:02 -0700
> From: Andy Hourselt <hoursela@purdue.edu>
> To: plug@csociety.purdue.edu
> Subject: [PLUG] LILO information
> 
> For a 30GB disk with some crazy number of cylinders above 30000, LILO is
> just putting L 01 00 00 00 etc etc many zeros to the screen. Anyone know
> what is going on in the boot process for each letter in LILO? Someone told
> me once but now I can't find that information.
> 
> Thanks
> Andy
> 
> 
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