[ale] 20 gig install problem

[Armsby John-G16665]

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Les Neste [mailto:lesneste at atlnewmedia.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:45 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] 20 gig install problem


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.


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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