On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Rod Farmer wrote:
>
> HELLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPP :)
>
> Tonight we installed a new 8 gb hard drive. We copied across all the
files
> from the old 500 mb hard drive without too much of a hastle. Now the
problem
> is that at the very last stage, after creating the new boot disk, we
> go to run /sbin/lilo and the damn thing tells us that we are out of our
> Cylinder range.
What precisely does it tell you? Please do not paraphrase error
messages if you want help. Quote them. /sbin/lilo &>oops, and include
oops, and we would all know what we're talking about.
>
> This is what we have
>
> /dev/hdc
> which is the new device
> /dev/hdc1 as the new partition
>
>
> Sorrry /dev/hdc1 is the 10MB partition we created for a /boot sector
> and /dev/hdc2 is the rest of the 8 gb hard drive.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can partition the new hard
drive
> so that lilo won't complain to us. What should our lilo.conf look like
> for example.
>
> We have tried several ways and alway get map installer error messages.
>
> Thanks again guys. Really appreciate the help as usual.
>
>
> Rod
> :)
>
If you have got /etc/fstab set to automount /boot (you did remember to
make a filesystem on it?) and you have installed any kernel images you
want to be able to boot into /boot, you should be right. By defautl
lilo installs exerything else it needs accessible into /boot.
boot = /dev/hdc
delay = 49
image = /boot/whatyoumaycallit
root = /dev/hdc2
label = mabel
read-only
You could also use boot = /dev/hdc1, but in that case you must set hdc1
as the bootable partition with fdisk, and make sure there is a working
MBR on it. I don't think linux fdisk puts one on. It is easier to just
put lilo on the MBR.
Lawson
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