Hard drive not detected properly by linux

[Joel Hammer]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 01:50:30PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> what does lilo.conf look like?
> 

disk = /dev/hdd
  bios = 0x83
  cylinders =155114
  sectors = 63
  heads   = 255
boot = /dev/hda
install = /boot/boot.b
map = /boot/map

prompt
delay = 50
timeout = 50
 
image = /vmlinuz-win4lin
      label = win4lin 
      root = /dev/hda1
      read-only
      vga = ask

Hmmm..
Looking this over, those disk parameters seem odd. I think heads should be
16 up there, at least to give 80 gigs.
I'll try that next.
Joel