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Colin Rhodes (colinr@caa.peg.apc.org) wrote:
: 
: Hi all,
: 
: I have a WD caviar disk which is paritioned as follows:
: Before I ran lilo, fdisk complained that
: 
: 	Partition 1 does not end on a cylinder boundary
: 		phys=(10,10,63) should be (10,15,63)
: 
: Then I ran the dreaded lilo with dos&linux entries - this disappeared
: and instead I got complaints that partitions 2&3 
: 	
: 	have different [phys/logical endings
: 	have different phys/logical beginning
: 	don't end on cylinder boundaries.
: 
: The partition table looks utterly trashed.  Can I do anything to get
: it back?  Could my disk geometry be wrong in the BIOS?  [it is mode 4,
: lba and as on the disk]

The easiest way to avoid these problems is to add an extra couple
of lines in /etc/lilo.conf: 
		append hd=hds,cyl,sec   
		linear
where hds, cyl and sec are the correct values for your drive.
Lilo should then work ok - however, I think fdisk will still
appear wrong because it asks the BIOS for information.  

Also, you may need to boot the system using a boot disk, again
passing it the correct geometry - before you will be able to 
get lilo to run succesfully.

Following this procedure I got linux and dos to see my 1.6G WD
cavier drive correctly.  Good luck!

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