[98293] in RedHat Linux List
Re: can someone explain this??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Housh)
Sat Nov 7 23:13:37 1998
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 22:11:38 +0000
From: Matt Housh <jaeger@morpheus.net>
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> that's what you get for using an experimental kernel.
LOL!!! Ok, this wins my "funniest redhat mailing list mail" for today
award. The cylinder problem has absolutely not one single thing to do
with the kernel being development or not. :) The problem here is that
lilo has problems booting when the cylinders on a hard disk (or boot
partition) are greater than 1023 (24?). Lilo is griping because his hard
drive is set (at least for that partition, if applicable) to have 3000
some cyls, if I read that right. If the hard drive is new enough, and
the computer as well, it should fix the problem to switch the drive's
mode to LBA in the bios. This will set your cylinders below 1000 on
almost all IDE drives (at least all I've seen). Otherwise, it might be
necessary to install linux on a partition that's entirely encompassed by
the first 1023 cylinders of the hard drive...
My $0.03...
Matt
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