Subject: Re: lilo dilemma
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 15:54:04 AKDT
What do your partitions look like? You probably need a /boot partition
within the first 1023 cylinders and you either don't have a specific boot
partition or it is after the first 1023 cylinders. What i've always done is
make a 20 meg or so /boot at the very beginning of the drive, so you are
assured it is within the first 1023 cyls, and I have never had a problem
with it..
I don't know enough about it though to tell you if it is possible to fix
this problem without a fresh install though..
Regards,
Justin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hamilton" <chris@digitalalaska.com>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 3:24 PM
Subject: lilo dilemma
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble with a fresh rh 7.0 install. I can boot into
> the system but I need a floppy to do it. I'm pretty lame when it comes to
> lilo issues. I've read the man pages for lilo and lilo.conf, but am still
> left using my floppy to boot.
>
> When I type lilo I get
>
> Warning: device 0x0306 exceeds cylinder limit
> Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (20584 > 1023)
>
> The hard drive is a quantum fireball 15 gig. When I boot up without a
> floppy it goes through its memory check, finds the floppy then beeps once
> and just sits there. I've fiddled with the boot options in the bios, but
to
> no avail. I read that a single beep may indicate a memory problem. Could
> that be affecting my boot up process. I've got 48 mb in it.
>
> This isn't a duel boot system. Just red hat.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris.
>
>
>
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