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  • Subject: Re: [BL] LILO challenge
  • Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:19:12 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Presently I am having the same problem, so I wish to share what I've noticed
about it.

I have an old Fujitsu HD that insn't recognized accordingly to the product
information (2490 cylinders 16 heads 63 sectors - all the possibilities
point to 16 heads) but seems to have 128 heads instead (the second setup
option), which is absolutely impossible - but it works!

Since I have to interchange HDs very often (among different OSes), sometimes
the BIOS accepts one or other set of values, which shows me a 'LI' and stops
booting.

When this happens I go to the Pc setup and try the second option and then it
works.

Please explain exactly what you do here. I don't follow it.

This same HD works fine on other PCs, which drives me to believe it's a BIOS
problem and the OS was copied to HD without noticing this oddity.

My muc newer 100GB HD works badly on two computers, including the one where I partitioned it, so I think it is a HD problem. But maybe DOS is confused by 100GB. All of the linux partitions act normally.

This other HD that I'm using right now sometimes is said to have 555
cylinders instead of 528 which makes the MSWindows freeze. Again, it works
very well on other computers.

Furtherly I'm intending to erase the 'BL3' HD and repeat all the procedures
from scratch, ensuring that I get just the 16 heads and not any other
number.

I hope this information can be of any help.

Please explain exactly what I should do to make my HD work properly. I partitioned it with BL3 fdisk (PQMagic would not work at all with it) and could format with e2fsck and copy files, but DOS format acts oddly. Files appear and disappear and turn to gibberish and the drive sometimes boots and sometime does not boot. I assumed bad partition table. It was given to me with no files on it, in an XP computer.

Sindi


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