Subject: Re: lilo dilemma
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 18:57:18 AKDT
I just had another thought on this.
What are you using for a disk-controller? When I put RH7.0 on my abit
mobo using the udma66 controller. It was at a non-standard address. It
would find it during the install, but when I rebooted it no longer found
the drive. It would however boot off the floppy.
To cure it. I booted of the floppy and then checked /proc/pci to find
the I/O address of the ide controller and added the apropriate address
to lilo as in: 'append ide0=0x????,0x????.
There is an offset to the second address, 2 or 4 (I don't remember
offhand). Check the how-to on the prommise udma cards.
BTW - If this cures it, be carefull changing or moving cards around. You
can change the address of the ide.
Jim Gribbin
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.
>
>
>
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