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Subject: Re: LILO error with 2.4.3-pre1...
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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:35:19 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <3AA19820.6A33E871@cotw.com> from "Steven J. Hill" at Mar 03, 2001 07:19:28 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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>    LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
>    'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
> 
>    Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-pre1
>    Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1274 > 1023)
> 
> 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 :).

You need to specify the lba32 option in your config

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