[ale] 20 gig install problem

Jerry Z. Yu z.yu at Ptek.com
Mon Mar 5 10:46:26 EST 2001


linear.

linear in LILO is like LBA in BIOS.

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:

#RH does not ask anything about LBA.  Regarding the setup paramers for LILO, I can not remember if the "linear" option is a check box or an "append" statement...
#
#Does anyone remember what I should enter here?
#
#John
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#From: Les Neste [mailto:lesneste at atlnewmedia.com]
#Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:45 AM
#To: ale at ale.org
#Subject: Re: [ale] 20 gig install problem
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#I went through this with a Maxtor 15GB and RH 6.1.  LBA comes up twice:
#once in BIOS, and once as an installation option when loading RH (for 6.2,
#anyway).  Like Mr. Kinney said, be sure to use LBA.  The option with
#installation was to 'use linear'.
#
#BTW, if you get a message that says 'verifying DMI pool' and then an
#infinite stream of 1's and/or 0's, it's a drive issue and has nothing to do
#with DMI. This is basically LILO telling you it can't find an image to boot
#from on the specified boot disk.  The resolution is to have correct BIOS
#setts in the first place.
#
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#At 09:31 AM 3/5/2001 -0500, James Kinney wrote:
#>Which RedHat are you installing? Lilo hasn't cared about 1024 cylinders
#>for a while. Maxtor EZBios should be avoided. Make sure you have LBA mode
#>turned ON in the bios.
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