[tlug] 1024 cylinder

[Pietro Zuco <pietro@example.com>]

Hello tlugers.

Last week I convince a friend to install linux. I installed redhat 7.3.
Her laptop is an Airis, 20G hd, more than 300M of ram and a Pentium III of 
1.1Ghz.
The first 5G are for winxp primari partition of fat32
Next 11G fat32 just for put mp3, videos, etc (extended partition)
And last 3,5G for linux (250 for swap and the rest for / ) (both / and swap 
primari partitions)

The oot manager: LILO.

When I reboot, the lilo fails. I only could boot with floppy. As root I 
checked the lilo.conf and was everything OK. After I executed lilo, the error 
was that the bios can not boot more than the 1024 cylinder. I amaze because 
it's a new computer and I though that the newer bios can support to boot more 
than the 1024 cylinder.

I only could boot with the floppy. 

My question is: If I can boot with the floppy, why can't I boot with LILO from 
the hard disk? I understand that at the boot time the BIOS can't go more than 
the 1024 cylinder but the LILO is in the MBR so after load it to memory, I 
though that is le the LILO that manage where to boot, isn't it?
Maybe grub can do it?

Thankyou in advance.
Pietro.