Hi Jiju,
I also tried installing LILO on my newly purchased 17GB HDD, but inspite of creating a
50MB
primary partition with cylinder between 1-34, it still gave me the 1024 cylinder
error. Right now
happily using loadlin to dual boot.
Regards
Rajesh
Jiju Thomas Mathew saw fit to inform me that:
>On Fri, 26 May 2000, Vipan chose to inform us:
>
>> after installation system refuse to load lilo, linux boot loader with error
>> that no. of cylinders of hard disk is 4096 and it should be max, upto 1024
>> for lilo installation.
>
>there was something regarding this back in the thread, check the archives
>
>get the latest version of lilo which is over come this 1024 cylynder prob.
>
>or you can try doing a full reinstall (all os)
>boot with any linux os,
>make 50 mb partitions for /boot below 1024 cylynders ( just around 6 GB)
>if you plan for Win 95 make that partition first primary
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