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Re: lilo instellation problem



Hi

use the option 'lba32' in your lilo.conf. Works like a charm.

	didi

On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:10:59PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I tried to install lilo on a new red hat 7 instalation.
> I tried to istall it on a 15 meg hda2 /boot, located after a 16 gig windows
> partition (which I can't move/remove etc.).
> I got an error (which coresponded to a comment during the installation
> formating stage) which said that lilo couldn't install,
> niether on hda2 nor on hda which reads as follows:
> 
> Warning:  device 0x0302 exceeds 1024 cylinders limit. Fatal: geo_comp_addr!
> cylinder number is too big (2040 > 1023).
> 
> I can reinstall/format the linux partition. I couldn't get linux to load off
> of  hda2 which contains the boot partition without lilo either (the computer
> just froze on startup).
> 
> The installation did boot ok from the boot disk.
> 
> Is there any way to solve this in order to use lilo instead of using loadlin
> instead?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Micha Feigin
> michf@post.tau.ac.il
> 
> 
> 
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