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Re: lilo degradation!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Sun Oct 20 18:15:08 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:12:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Sergey Panov wrote:
> After upgrade lilo refuses to instal intelf saying that my Linux partition
> is too high (higher then 1024). Damn! My old lilo worked just fine. I still
> can reboot and use lilo that was installed before upgrade.
>
> What is that upgrade or degradation?
You probably have a root partition that extends past cylindre 1024.
Depending on where your kernel happens to get written, it may not
be bootable. The best way to solve this is to use a separate /boot
partition of a few megs and make sure that it's entirely below cylinder
1024.
Erik
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