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Re: lilo instellation problem
- To: Micha Feigin <kamikaza_mic(at-nospam)yahoo.com>
- Subject: Re: lilo instellation problem
- From: Yedidya Bar-david <didi(at-nospam)tau.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:20:53 +0300
- Cc: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
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- In-Reply-To: <010e01c0d016$fef3c3a0$440608d5@merav>; from kamikaza_mic@yahoo.com on Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:10:59PM +0200
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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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