Re: lilo problem
This may or may not work for you, but I've always had luck making a small (15mb) partition for /boot at the front of the disk and just letting it go from there. Lilo seems to love it no matter the hard disk size... maybe that will help you... have a good time,
Jack
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 09:17:41PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> :: 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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