create root partition  before 8gb
or create /boot of few MBs below 8gb limit
LILO can be installed only on the first disk (hda)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [LIH] exceeds 1024 cylinder limits


> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (vipinkumar menon) writes:
>
> >  I have a celron 366 with 64mb ram 20 gb hdd, with
> > dual boot win 98/XP I got the machine in 1999 with hdd
> > replased just recently.
> > i'm trying to install red hat 7.0 from a disk i
> > recived from sams red hat linux in 24 hrs, the
> > installation goes fine till the end , but before it
> > reboots it gives a warning 0X1607 device exceeds 1024
> > cylinder limit, can any one help, or guide from which
> > LDP i can get help.
>
> Google for "lilo 1024 cylinder hole".
>
> This is a limitation of old versions of lilo.
>
> Just upgrade lilo, or better still upgrade your distro to redhat 7.3 - 7.0
> is ancient.
>
>     -suresh
>
>
>



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