Subject: Re: lilo dilemma
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 16:52:44 AKDT
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 15:24, Chris Hamilton wrote:
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble with a fresh rh 7.0 install. I can boot into
> the system but I need a floppy to do it. I'm pretty lame when it comes to
> lilo issues. I've read the man pages for lilo and lilo.conf, but am still
> left using my floppy to boot.
>
> When I type lilo I get
>
> Warning: device 0x0306 exceeds cylinder limit
> Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (20584 > 1023)
>
> The hard drive is a quantum fireball 15 gig. When I boot up without a
> floppy it goes through its memory check, finds the floppy then beeps once
> and just sits there. I've fiddled with the boot options in the bios, but to
> no avail. I read that a single beep may indicate a memory problem. Could
> that be affecting my boot up process. I've got 48 mb in it.
>
> This isn't a duel boot system. Just red hat.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris.
afaik, lilo v21.5 'broke' the 1024 cyl barrier. Also I think
lilo/geometry issues at least give you a 'L' or 'LI' etc. Of course this
doesn't help solve the problem unless the bios version shipped with RH
7.0 is < v 21.5.
I found some interesting reading by entering 'beep codes during boot' in
Google, I think they are bios specific though.
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