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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:19:28 -0600
From: "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com>
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Subject: LILO error with 2.4.3-pre1...
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Hmm, needed 2.4.3-pre1 and went to install with LILO using
'lilo -v' and got this:

   LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
   'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman

   Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
   Merging with /boot/boot.b
   Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2
   Added linux *
   Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-pre1
   Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1274 > 1023)

Neato. I don't have time to dig through LILO source code right
now, so here are my system specs:

	Linux Distribution: RedHat 6.2 with all latest updates
        Hard Disk: Maxtor 52049H3 (20GB) IDE
        CPU: Dual PII-266MHz
        RAM: 256MB PC100
        Result of 'fdisk /dev/hda -l':

           Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders
           Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

             Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
          /dev/hda1   *         1      1513  12153141   83  Linux
          /dev/hda2          1514      1530    136552+  82  Linux swap
          /dev/hda3          1531      2491   7719232+  83  Linux

I have no idea why the 1023 limit is coming up considering 2.4.2 and
LILO were working just fine together and I have a newer BIOS that has
not problems detecting the driver properly. Go ahead, call me idiot :).

-Steve

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