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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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