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

[Sandeep Singh Cheema <cheemas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] www.suraj.co.in wrote:

> 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)



whats your cylinder boundaries of hda5 (linux native) partition??? to find
this, boot into linux using the boot disk (u made one, didnt u?) and run
fdisk and press p 

send the o/p to me, and i shall tell u what to do.





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Sandeep Singh Cheema

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] www.suraj.co.in wrote:

> 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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