:: On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 16:26:14 -0700, Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I'm running libranet version of debian potato. It uses the 2.2.14 kernel. I > am having a problem with lilo. My hard disk is a 15 gig with the following > partitions > /=2500 megs > /usr=5000mgb > /home=2500mgb > /var=1250mgb > the rest of the disk is just free space. When I run lilo I get the following > error: > debian:/home/dlm# /sbin/lilo > Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1046 > 1023) > debian:/home/dlm# > My bios supports large disk access, but when I try to reconfigure lilo to do > that, I get an error that it's unable to install to the boot block. How would > I edit my lilo config file to get lilo to boot from the hard disk? I even > tried installing and configuring a new kernel (2.2.16) and it worked fine up > until I ran bzlilo and I got an error 2 message, something about being unable > to install to the boot directory.. > any suggestions? > thanks Which version of LILO? If it's the one in woody, try lilo -L (From the man page:) -L Generate 32-bit Logical Block Addresses instead of C:H:S addresses, allowing access to all partitions on disks greater than 8.4Gb. J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]