[plug] Problem with Lilo

[David Buddrige]

thanks heaps... will give that a shot.  8-)

regards

David.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Vertigan <steven at vertigan.wattle.id.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Thursday, 27 September 2001 7:20
Subject: Re: [plug] Problem with Lilo


>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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