[LI] Lilo problem:"Cylinder exceeds the 1023 limit"

["www.suraj.co.in" <sesha_sai_iyengar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just installed Red Hat 6.0 linux on my PC. I have
a Pentium 66 MHZ,
8.6 GB HDD, 8M RAM   :-)

I have a DOS, Linux partition. with linux native
in /dev/hda5, DOS in /dev/hda1

During installation I couldn't place lilo (There
the problem had started!!??!!)

After I booted using a Boot Disk I did lilo -v
-t.

The Following error message was seen.

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Warning: Device 0x0305 exceeds 1024 cylinder
limit
geo_compr_addr: Cylinder number is too big(6296 >
1023)

Then in panic, I placed LiLO by using lilo -v    
        :-O

But when I rebooted all I saw was this:

L 00 00 00 ... (to infinity, the zeroes go!) ...
00 00  :-(

What is causing this? How do I fix this problem
up?

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