When installing Linux, you can install it on any size drive. But.... the
Linux Kernel must be installed within the first 1024 cylinders of the drive.
My guess is that you are installing Linux on a partition above the
1024 cylinder limit. Your message stated that you are using DOS, so you can
install LILO there. If you later want to remove it, you can use the DOS
command fdisk /mbr

Also, Linux cannot be installed on older version of partition translation
software,
such as OnTrack Disk Manager, AKA Disk Mangler :-). But it does work just
fine with the latest releases, such as the one shipping with Maxtor drives,
called MAXBLAST.

Good Luck!!!!

Steve Wolfe


----- Original Message -----
From: "de Silva" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:48 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Linux Blues


> I'm trying to get a Linux (minilinux)OS going  at DOS terminal on my
> Pentium II 4.2 GB Quantum fireball HD(c,D Partitions with DOS/win98) but
> get the following error msg with Vmlinuz Image file.
>
> "hd.C:; ST506 interface disk with more than 16 heads detected. Probably
due
> to non standard sector translation. Giving up.
> (disk 0: cyl=1023, sect=63, head=128)
> Kernal Panic: VFS; Unable to mount root"
>
> Any help to decipher this msg and further advice from a Linux enthusiast
is
> much appreciated.
>
> thanks...
>
>
> § £intón Jªyªsiri dé 'Silvå §

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