Messages in this thread | | | From | "Tom Sightler" <> | Subject | Re: LILO error with 2.4.3-pre1... | Date | Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:27:15 -0500 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Owens" <kaos@ocs.com.au> To: <sjhill@cotw.com> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 8:39 PM Subject: Re: LILO error with 2.4.3-pre1...
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:19:28 -0600, > "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com> wrote: > >I have no idea why the 1023 limit is coming up considering 2.4.2 and > >LILO were working just fine together and I have a newer BIOS that has > >not problems detecting the driver properly. Go ahead, call me idiot :). > > OK, you're an idiot :). It only worked before because all the files > that lilo used just happened to be below cylinder 1024. Your partition > goes past cyl 1024 and your new kernel is using space above 1024.
I would agree with this explanation.
> Find a version of lilo that can cope with cyl >= 1024 (is there one?)
Uh, the version he has can cope with this, see the following:
> LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger > 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
The lba32 extensions should take care of this, of course you have to add 'lba32' as a line in your lilo.conf before lilo actually uses them (and, I assume, the BIOS must support the LBA extensions, but it seems most modern ones do).
Give that a try. Works for me.
Later, Tom
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