Re: [tlug] 1024 cylinder

[Mauro Sauco <mauro.sauco@example.com>]

Pietro,

Boot with a floppy, mount your root partition and chroot to it,  add an 
'lba32' to your /etc/lilo.conf , run lilo, unmount and reboot ..

Good luck,
//mauro//


On Wednesday 10 July 2002 04:48 pm, Pietro Zuco wrote:
> 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.