[LI] Help : LILO < 1024 error.

[Mohanan P G <pgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject : LILO refuses to load kernel.

We have an old acerpower 800 machine with P90 , 32 MB and two
RealTEk 10/100 cards and we wish to create a masquerader for the
college network. 

The bios (Acer v2.0) supports > 540MB disk and we had put a disk
( Samsung 4.2GB  with 8912 cyl,15 heads and 63 sectors). 
 
I went thru LargeDisk mini howto and lilo (v 0.21-10) README,
searched thru the linux-india mailbackup and found a site on the
net where there was a faq on lilo saying that  a working ,
non-optimal partitioning for > 1024 cyl problem would be
/dev/hda2 : starting at 1 and 25MB for /boot, 
/dev/hda3 swap next
and rest /dev/hda1 as root. 

This *did* work with RHL 5.2 and lilo booted. But I wish to use
the 2.2 kernel as it recognises my RealTek NIC and
uses ipchains.

So, using the same partitioning when I upgraded to RHL6.1 (PCQ) ,
LILO failed - stops at LI (when logical geometry different from
physical as 524,255,63 , LIL-( when physical geometry was given
explicitly) and loads kernel but hangs when used linear mode.

Is there any tweak ? Could anyone help ?

I am only on linux-india-digest.  I'd be grateful if you'd Cc
your reply to me.

Rgds & TIA,
--pgm
P G Mohanan			E-Mail :pgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
K R E C Surathkal		Fax    :91-824-476090

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