Hard drive not detected properly by linux

[Joel Hammer]

I downloaded the newest version.
My version is:
LILO version 21           

According to the large disk HOWTO, this doesn't support lba32 or whatever.
However, I can't figure out how to compile lilo. The instructions are just
not there. Running QuickInst warned me not to use it for anything but a new
installation, whatever that is, ./configure would run, and make returned an
error.

Anyway, my other two 80 gig drives are working fine.

Joel

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 02:06:30PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:

> 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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