Re: LILO error with 2.4.3-pre1...

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 04 2001 - 08:35:19 EST

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> LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
>
> Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-pre1
> Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1274 > 1023)
>
> 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 :).

You need to specify the lba32 option in your config

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