Hi Mohanan
I had a similar problem installing RH6.1 on a new 8.4Gb HDD.
I found a workaround - I did a default "GNOME Workstation" install. This
automatically handled the problem, made the partitions, the way it liked and
made my HDD work. If you want, I will get you the partition info.
BTW my HDD had 1027 clys.(Quantum)
If you come across the actual solution for this problem do inform me
too.
Regards
Nitin
>From: Mohanan P G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [LI] Help : LILO < 1024 error.
>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:41:10 +0530 (IST)
>
>Subject : LILO refuses to load kernel.
>
>We have an old acerpower 800 machine with P90 , 32 MB and two
>RealTEk 10/100 cards and we wish to create a masquerader for the
>college network.
>
>The bios (Acer v2.0) supports > 540MB disk and we had put a disk
>( Samsung 4.2GB with 8912 cyl,15 heads and 63 sectors).
>
>I went thru LargeDisk mini howto and lilo (v 0.21-10) README,
>searched thru the linux-india mailbackup and found a site on the
>net where there was a faq on lilo saying that a working ,
>non-optimal partitioning for > 1024 cyl problem would be
>/dev/hda2 : starting at 1 and 25MB for /boot,
>/dev/hda3 swap next
>and rest /dev/hda1 as root.
>
>This *did* work with RHL 5.2 and lilo booted. But I wish to use
>the 2.2 kernel as it recognises my RealTek NIC and
>uses ipchains.
>
>So, using the same partitioning when I upgraded to RHL6.1 (PCQ) ,
>LILO failed - stops at LI (when logical geometry different from
>physical as 524,255,63 , LIL-( when physical geometry was given
>explicitly) and loads kernel but hangs when used linear mode.
>
>Is there any tweak ? Could anyone help ?
>
>I am only on linux-india-digest. I'd be grateful if you'd Cc
>your reply to me.
>
>Rgds & TIA,
>--pgm
>P G Mohanan E-Mail :[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>K R E C Surathkal Fax :91-824-476090
>
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