Re: I am in need of assistance

[Chris Strandt <strandtc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually... I was reading the RH manual... they suggested making the boot
directory right around 10 to 15 MB (because you really don't need that much space
for your kernels).

-Chris

Bruce Smith wrote:

> > 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
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