Re: I am in need of assistance

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Okay here is goes.  My name is Mike and I have a problem.  I have recently
> bought a new hard drive (10.1 gig) and yesterday I attempted to setup the OS
> and other fun things of that sort.  When installing Linux I got an error
> message saying that I had too many cylinders (1232 to be exact) and that
> LILO might not work properly because I have more that 1024 cylinders.  Will
> when I finally got to setting up my Boot setup it told that it wouldn't
> install correctly.  I had made a startup disk and I can get to Linux fine
> with the startup disk, but is there any other way to correct this?  While
> the startup disk does work, it is not what I would like to use all the time.

Hi Mike!  How's it going?  Got any more snow up there?   :{)

I get the same warning message on my 9.1GB drive, but LILO works
fine for me as long as I have LBA turned on and I keep my kernel
image and /boot directory in a partition under the 1024 cyl limit.
I use the >1023 cyl partition(s) for data only storage since it
doesn't matter to Linux once it's booted.

Try moving the linux kernel and /boot directory to a partition
less than 1024, rerun "lilo" manually, ignore the warning and
see if it works then.  Let us know!

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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