Stefan Srdic wrote:
>
> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>
> > /sbin/lilo -V
> >
> > Hey, it works for me. Check from the slashdot story what version
> > you'd
> > need to go past the magical BIOSBoundary TM.
> >
> > -- Asheesh.
> >
> > --
> > Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on
> > the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice.
> > (Craig E. Groeschel)
>
> I the latest version of LILO, version 21.4-3, and I still cant boot
> over the 1024th cylinder. Everytime that I try to install LILO using
> KLILO I always get the same error message:
>
> Warning:device 0x0306 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> Fatal:geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1291 > 1023)
>
> Error: LILO died
>
> I know that now using LILO is out of the question, as I said before I
> use LOADLIN and a bootdisk to boot up Linux. But, I would rather use a
> boot loader, how can I install and configure Grub on my system??
If you had a /boot partition of 15MB in size your machine would boot
just fine and LILO would be VERY happy and never complain about the
cylinder limitation.
--
Mark
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