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I recently bought a new SCSI disc, but I'm having trouble getting it
to boot. 

Anyone willing to help ??


The scenario is ...

	Drive : Seagate ST-4767N
		1356 cyl, 15 heads, 65 sectors, 676MB formatted
		
	Controller: Future Domain TMC-950 clone
		BIOS Rev V7.0


I've split it into 4 partitions, and want to make /dev/sda1 the root
filesystem and bootable.


Given that the drive has 1356 cylinders and 65 sectors/track, I ran
the dparam.com utility to see what the BIOS though it was. It printed

	34  38  1006

which I took to mean 34 heads, 38 sectors, and 1006 cyls going by what
it said in the SCSI-HOWTO.

Here begins the saga  ;-)

- fdisk doesn't like the drive so I always have to tell it what the
  various sizes are. i partitioned the drive telling fdisk the numbers
  given by dparam

- LILO cannot deal with the drive without a disktab, so I set the
  disktab to the numbers given by dparam

- I remade the boot sector and tried both MBR of /dev/sda and also the
  boot sector for /dev/sda1


If I don't use the LINEAR option to LILO, I get just the 'LI' when it
tries to boot.

If I do use the LINEAR option, I get an endless stream of 'LI's down
the screen until I reboot.


I've tried many combinations of size settings, disktab entries, etc
but so far none have worked. 

The FAQ seems to indicate that this is geometry problem - any idea how
I might get this going ?

Any thoughts appreciated,
Thanks in advance,

davida

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David Arnold
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--
David Arnold
====================================================================
CRC for Distributed Systems Technology          +617 3654310 (voice)
University of Queensland, Australia             +617 3654311   (fax)
                                          arnold@dstc.edu.au (email)
     <http://www.dstc.edu.au/public/staff/david-arnold.html>   (web)