Hard drive not detected properly by linux

[Net Llama!]

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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.

i see your problem.  you need to use the 'lba32' parameter.  recent 
versions of LILO support it (like in the past year or so).  without 
anything else you do will be a complete waste of time.

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