LILO cylinder problem
I don't understand why lilo is doing this. I've never had this problem
before.
I just repartitioned my drive and put linux on hda2. When I try to run
lilo to boot linux from hda2 instead of hda1 it gives me this error about
my cylinders.
geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2312 > 1023)
I am aware that, for whatever reason, lilo won't look beyond cylinder
1023, the 540MB line that M$ drew out of ignorance years ago. (It might
not have been Bill but I like blaming shit on him anyway.)
Anyway. The point is that I took this into account and started hda2 at
cylinder 817. I gave hda1 405MB, hda2 792MB, and hda3 is a 20MB rescue
partition.
So why in the hell does lilo report cylinder 2312 which I'm fairly sure is
in hda3 when I'm setting up hda2 which starts at 817?
I have used this same partition setup before without any trouble. Anyone
have a clue?
When is lilo going to recognise hard drives larger than 540MB? This is an
ignorant limitation. Now that BIOS can read them when is lilo going to be
updated?
--Rick
rickya@siservices.net
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