Subject: Re: lilo dilemma
From: Chris Hamilton (chris@digitalalaska.com)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 17:16:34 AKDT
Thanks.
The bios is AMIBIOS by megatrends. Their beep code list identifies 1 beep
as a refresh failure, which they say is a fatal error. The docs say to
reseat the memory and if that fails try new memory. That seems very strange
given that I can boot up with a floppy. Although that might explain why
mandrake wouldn't install at all. My mandrake install ended with an error
about not enough memory. Duh. Guess I should have paid a little more
attention eh?
While I'm wasting everyone's time, anyone have some good links for upgrading
a rh 7.0 box to the latest greatest version?
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Madden" <pabi@gci.net>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: lilo dilemma
>
> 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.
> --
> Greg Madden
> Precision Air Balance, Inc.
> email:pabi@gci.net
> Phone:(907)276-0461 Fax:(907)258-0461
>
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