> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Paul Dorman wrote:
>
> > When I run lilo after editing my lilo.conf file I get the following
> > error:
> >
> > [root@core /boot]# lilo
> > geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1106 > 1023)
> > [root@core /boot]#
> >
> > Changing lilo.conf back to use the 2.2.9 kernel removes the error.
>
> Your 2.2.9 kernel is within 1024 cylinders, and 2.2.10 one is not -- it
> just happened that they were placed by the fiesystem there. It's
> condisered to be a bad idea to have boot filesystem beyond first 1024
> cylinders, and this is why separate small /boot is created by default by
> some distributions.
>
> The best (but somewhat painful) solution is to make boot floppy, boot
> from it, backup the hard drive (on tape or another hard drive),
> repartition it with small /boot as the first partition and root (or
> whatever else) after it, then restore the disk on new partitions and edit
> /etc/fstab to reflect partitions changes.
>
> Second best one is to add one more hard drive, partitioned "the right
> way", and the last resort is a kernel on a floppy.
>
> --
> Alex
>
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