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Re: ylinder number is too big problem



On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Moshe Ashkenazi wrote:

> I have on my RH 6.2 a 30GB HardDrive, every time that I'm doing lilo
> i'm getting the following error message:
> 
> geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2154 > 1023)

Yes.
Your lilo is an old version that can't boot from > 1024 partitions.

Solutions:

1. Upgrade lilo
or
2. Create a "boot" partition that mounts on /boot where you keep your map,
kernel and whatever else, boot it from there, and mount the big 30 gig
partition as /

Cheers.

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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Moshe Ashkenazi wrote:

> HI, List -
> 
> I have on my RH 6.2 a 30GB HardDrive, every time that I'm doing lilo 
> i'm getting the following error message:
> 
> geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2154 > 1023)
> 
> Does anyone knows what is the problem ?
> 
> 
> 
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