I'm reposting this since I haven't gotten any responses yet. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > I don't understand why lilo is doing this. I've never had this problem > before. > > I just repartitioned my drive and put linux on hda2. When I try to run > lilo to boot linux from hda2 instead of hda1 it gives me this error about > my cylinders. > > geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2312 > 1023) > > I am aware that, for whatever reason, lilo won't look beyond cylinder > 1023, the 540MB line that M$ drew out of ignorance years ago. (It might > not have been Bill but I like blaming shit on him anyway.) > > Anyway. The point is that I took this into account and started hda2 at > cylinder 817. I gave hda1 405MB, hda2 792MB, and hda3 is a 20MB rescue > partition. > > So why in the hell does lilo report cylinder 2312 which I'm fairly sure is > in hda3 when I'm setting up hda2 which starts at 817? > > I have used this same partition setup before without any trouble. Anyone > have a clue? > > When is lilo going to recognise hard drives larger than 540MB? This is an > ignorant limitation. Now that BIOS can read them when is lilo going to be > updated? > > --Rick > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .