[ltp] IBM DJSA-230 (30GB) in TP600E

[Jay Lyerly]

According to the lilo docs, stopping at LI may indicate a geometry
mismatch.  Did you specify the CHS when installed linux on the drive? 
You'll need to pass that info to the installer's kernel so that when
lilo runs during installation it has correct geometry information.  

jay


Andreas Siegert wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:12:01PM +0200, K. Holcomb wrote:
> > >> just received an IBM DJSA-230, a nice 30GB Disk. But so far I was not really
> > >> successfull installing Linux and (YUCK!) win98 on it.
> > >> The BIOS gives me the usual 8GB (CHS like 16xx,16,63)
> >
> >       Which Linux?  A variety of distributions may or may not work, but
> >       apparently kernels below 2.2.14 definitely do *not* work, even with
> >       the latest BIOS, for disks larger than 8G.
> 
> SuSE 6.4 which should have 2.2.14.
> I have been using an 18G disk before without any special tweaks.
> 
> > >> Right now I am trying with CHS=58128,16,63, hoping it will work out nicely.
> 
> Nope, did not work, lilo stopped at LI :-(
> 
> cheers
> afx
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