[PLUG] Lilo Warning: Int 0x13 function

Russ Johnson russj at dimstar.net
Wed May 15 23:25:22 UTC 2002


I believe this has to do with large disk access. Are you absolutely 
positive that you need the lba32 entry?

At 03:42 PM 5/15/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello Linux folkz,
>
>I'm scratching my head and still can't find a decent answer.
>My lilo.conf includes these entries:
>--------------------------------------
>boot    = /dev/hda
>change-rules
>reset
>read-only
>menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg
>lba32
>prompt
>timeout = 100
>message = /boot/message
>
>   image  = /boot/vmlinuz
>   label  = linux
>   root   = /dev/hda3
>
>   image  = /boot/memtest.bin
>   label  = memtest86
>   optional
>-------------------------------------
>
>When I execute lilo in a command prompt it gives me:
>
>Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
>head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x81
>Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
>head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x82
>Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
>head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x83
>Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
>head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x84
>Fatal: Empty map section
>
>Could somebody tell me please what is wrong with my lilo.conf.
>Thank you in advance.
>Alex
>
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Russ Johnson
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