[aclug-L] Re: LI problem...

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adding to Jeff Schaller's comments:

> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Maverick Ieong wrote:
>
> >   I try to to install Redhat 6.2 on a 20G IDE drive:
> >
> >   Here is the partitions:
> >   hda1    4G (Primiary) Win32-FAT
> >          16G (Extended)
> >   inside 16G it gots
> >         Rest (logical) linux native  /
> >
> >   The redhat linux complete install, we put the lilo
> > on the 4G MBR, and try to bootup and it stops on "LI".
>
>
> You ran into this because ...
>
>
> > Luckly I created a boot disk at the end of
> > installation. So I can boot up using floppy and got to
> > linux. And just re-run the /sbin/lilo, and it
> > generates
> >
> > >...execeed 1024 cyclinder
>
> ... of this.  Lilo needs to find the kernel in the
> first 1024 cylinders.  Stick with the boot floppy
> you have, unless you want to repartition & reinstall.

Two options here. 1) use loadlin to load the kernel from a dos partition.
2)Check for a newer version of Lilo.

Here's what I found at metalab:

<inserted text>

LILO version 21 by Werner Almesberger has been updated to support booting
from disks > 1024 cylinders using a new 'lba32' option (-L new command line
switch).  Version 21.5 now adds a menu-driven user interface to the Linux
boot process.  Source code is available for download from:

   ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo          (developer's site)

Or from the main distribution site:

   ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo    (please use)


The lilo-21.5 release builds upon the stability of 21.4.4, and adds new
code to support the boot menu.  This release is fully backward compatible
with earlier releases.

See the distribution file 'CHANGES' for details of the differences between
21.4.4 and 21.5.

</inserted text>

You may wish to see if a prepackaged version exists for your distribution.

--dwh

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