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Tuesday May 21 1996 18:32, tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au wrote:

 > 486DX4100, Conner 1.2GB drive.  This had an EIDE controller and
 > compatible BIOS, and the drive was remapped from 2479/16/63 to
 > 619/64/63, and LILO had no problems.

 > Same PC w/ Quantum 2.5 GB drive.  This drive couldn't be remapped for
 > some reason, and I was stuck with 4900 odd (!) cylinders.  Only solution
 > was to create a 60 MB root filesystem at the start of the drive, and
 > boot off that.  /usr lives on a separate partition.

I was fixing Linux on a friend's PC lately, with Linux on a Quantum 540mb drive 
(hdc); I had to specify hdb=c,h,s but after that there were no problems. We 
were using LBA in the BIOS (Award PCI) but Linux was not translating 
automatically, cause unknown.

 > 450MB DOS partition and the rest Linux and swap.  Again, LILO wouldn't
 > work, as the bulk of the Linux root partition lives beyond 1024 cyls.

It does on my system too (EIDE), but this is no problem. I have two 500mb DOS 
partitions before the 500mb Linux partition, and LILO has no complaints. Linux 
autotranslates the geometry properly.


hamish

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