[plug] Problem with Lilo

[Steve Vertigan]

David Buddrige wrote:

>     geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2214 > 1023)
> 
> Is there any way around this? Would breaking the drive into a number of
> smaller partions help?

I would redo the partitions and make sure there's a small /boot
partition in the first 1024 cylinders of hda.  Then you can whack
everything else onto / (plus the swap partition).  This problem's fairly
well documented occurence, should even be something about it in lilo's
manpage.

Regards,
Steve

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