You can try the new LILo which doesn't have the 1024 limit.
Mayuresh A Kathe wrote:
>
> When I tried to install Linux on a friends machine I got the following
> message while doing fdisk during install.
>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2227.
> This is larger than 1024 and may cause problems with:
> 1) Software that runs at boot time (eg LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (eg DOS FDISK, OS/2
> FDISK)
>
> What do I do to install Linux on his machine?
>
> Awaiting your reply.
>
> Bye.
>
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