Force pass through the append line of lilo.conf::
hdx=2100,255,63
It will take it regardless of the BIOS.
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Nahshon wrote:
> I got a new large IDE disk (>8GB) and was worried about how
> it would be handled by Linux/fdisk. (before this thread
> began) I have set it to LBA. Fdisk (tried on Linux 2.0.35
> and 2.1.1XX) reports C/H/S = 2100/255/63 (which matches
> my calculation). I guess these are the values returned by
> the BIOS. I did not see any problems when using LBA and
> fdisk (am I just lucky).
>
> On another instance, A friend has partitioned his large disk
> using a commercial software. We ran Linux fdisk (from RH 5.1)
> just to verify the partitions and to set partition types.
> Fdisk reported the right number of cylinders for the "virgin"
> disk but only 1023 cylinders after the disk was partitioned.
> That makes me question where the disk geometry is realy taken
> from (is it read of the disk or reported by the firmware?).
>
> Are the problems described with LBA generic, or a result of
> broken/incompatible bioses?
> I can easily repartition my disk (nothing important on it yet).
> Should I switch back from LBA? What can I gain except for
> maybe 0.1% of the disk space?
> What are the current limits for Lilo or Grub about the location
> of boot images? I keep a /boot primary partition on the first
> LBA cylinder and use lilo or grub. Linux is installed on logical
> partitions which go beyond the 8GB mark. I plan to install
> other OS.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Itai Nahshon
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Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
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