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SCSI hard disk question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Youjip Won)
Sun Dec 28 20:52:17 1997
From: Youjip Won <yjwon@cs.umn.edu>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 19:47:46 -0600 (CST)
Dear Linux gurus,
I have difficulty in feeding the correct geometry information to
LILO.
I have a system w/
- Seagate Barracuda 4XL( formatted capacity: 4.55 GB)
- adaptec 7880W SCSI adapter(driver = aic7xxx)
This is linux only system.
Without geometry information, LILO hang forever after spitting "LI".
So, I explicitly specify the disk geometry information in /etc/lilo.conf
as follows.
disk = /dev/sda
sectors = 63
heads = 255
cylinder = 512
sectors and heads values are found at
http://www.linuxnow.com/gotdocs?large-disk website.
cylinder number has been chosen such that total size of the disk
does not exceed the actual capacity of the disk(4.55GB).
With this settings, it passes the LILO successfully. However, it fails to
mount the root file system generating following message.
Partition check:
cannot open root device 08:01
Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
LUN of SCSI disk is 8 and root file system resides at /dev/sda1.
'linear' option generates the same error message.
Seen through fdisk, the disk has 64 heads, 32 sector, and 4340 cyl.
It would be greatly appreciated if I could share the details with
you.
Thanks.!!!
Youjip
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