----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: LILO error with 2.4.3-pre1...


> On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:19:28 -0600,
> "Steven J. Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >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 :).
>
> OK, you're an idiot :).  It only worked before because all the files
> that lilo used just happened to be below cylinder 1024.  Your partition
> goes past cyl 1024 and your new kernel is using space above 1024.

I would agree with this explanation.

> Find a version of lilo that can cope with cyl >= 1024 (is there one?)

Uh, the version he has can cope with this, see the following:

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

The lba32 extensions should take care of this, of course you have to add
'lba32' as a line in your lilo.conf before lilo actually uses them (and, I
assume, the BIOS must support the LBA extensions, but it seems most modern
ones do).

Give that a try.  Works for me.

Later,
Tom


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