Re: 2.2.0-final problems

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:14:22 +0300 (MSK)


In <m1056Qj-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu> Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:

>> have lilo color installed with 4 entries, 3 for linux and one for
>> win98. Now everything gone, lilo complains: device 0303 has starting
>> cylinder > 1024, I tried linear and I tried installing lilo in
>> /dev/hda1 (I don't have win98 anymore), nothing helped me.

> Your root partition goes over 1024 cylinders - before by luck your kernels
> landed in the area the PC BIOS can handle - this time it didnt

>> [Help is badly needed, I recommended my friend to install linux in
>> his new PC, I don't want him to face this pbm in the beginning!]

> Keep the root partition below cylinder 1024.

Not root, but boot (mounted in /boot :-) of course ...

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