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Re: lilo/scsi



Ben-Nes Michael wrote:

> Lilo is not working with scsi :-(
> what should i do/read to solve this proble ?
> 
> fdisk /dev/sda
> 
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1115.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Make sure your first partition and boot partition (if not the first),
fit in the first 1024 "cylinders" (e.g. less than 8192 meg).

Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Tel:  (03) 6944-211  Fax: (03) 6944-225 Email: gsm@bfr.co.il 


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