Re: lilo problem
:: On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 16:26:14 -0700, Dale Morris <dlm@well.com> said:
> I'm running libranet version of debian potato. It uses the 2.2.14 kernel. I am having a problem with lilo. My hard disk is a 15 gig with the following partitions
> /=2500 megs
> /usr=5000mgb
> /home=2500mgb
> /var=1250mgb
> the rest of the disk is just free space. When I run lilo I get the following error:
> debian:/home/dlm# /sbin/lilo
> Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1046 > 1023)
> debian:/home/dlm#
> My bios supports large disk access, but when I try to reconfigure lilo to do that, I get an error that it's unable to install to the boot block. How would I edit my lilo config file to get lilo to boot from the hard disk? I even tried installing and configuring a new kernel (2.2.16) and it worked fine up until I ran bzlilo and I got an error 2 message, something about being unable to install to the boot directory..
> any suggestions?
> thanks
Which version of LILO? If it's the one in woody, try
lilo -L
(From the man page:)
-L Generate 32-bit Logical Block Addresses instead of
C:H:S addresses, allowing access to all partitions
on disks greater than 8.4Gb.
J.
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Jeronimo Pellegrini
Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
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