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[mora at spectrix.com (Carlos Mora)]

Well, I finally managed to get the disk to work properly. I 
used the -l option to LILO. It generates a linear sector
address rather than using the sector,head,cylinder address.
This solved the problem.

Thanks
--carlos

> 
> Carlos Mora>	I'm having one heck of a time trying to get LILO to install.
> Carlos Mora>The disk that I'm using is a Micropolis 4011 IDE drive. It has  a
> Carlos Mora>geometry of 2048,15,63. When I run LILO I get an error message about
> Carlos Mora>the cylinder being greater that 1023. Is ther any way around this
> Carlos Mora>problem?
> 
> 
> from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/hardware/Hardware-HOWTO
>    Large IDE drives will work fine with Linux. With kernels prior to
>    about 1.1.47 you will need to run with LBA disabled which may confuse
>    DOS if you wish to share the drive. Your boot partition must lie in
>    the first 1024 cylinders due to PC BIOS limitations.
> 
> 		or
> 
> from tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Large-IDE
> 
>    disk geometry calculation
>    2048*15*63*(512 bytes/sector) = 990904320 bytes
> 
> So you drive is 990Meg?  Any IDE drive	 bigger than 5??Meg is one of the
> new EIDE or Large-IDE drives.  These drives are not directly supported, 
> but the tsx-11 HOWTO should tell you how to do it.
> 
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