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Re: can someone explain this??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Smith)
Sun Nov 8 03:09:06 1998
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 21:56:16 -0500
From: Fred Smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
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In-Reply-To: <19981107204200.9886.qmail@hotmail.com>; from aaron zaeero on Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 12:42:00PM -0800
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On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 12:42:00PM -0800, aaron zaeero wrote:
> Hi,
> I just compiled a new 2.1.126 kernel and am testing it from
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage
>
> Anyways when I run /sbin/lilo I get:
> Something to the effect of that cyliders 3456 > 1024
> and it doesnt' properly add the last entry.
DO you perhaps have the newly compiled kernel on a partition which
goes beyond cylinder 1023? Lilo can't deal with that (because the
BIOS can't!). The entire kernel must be on cylinders <= 1023 or Lilo
can't boot it since lilo uses the BIOS for the low-level disk i/o
during that early stage of boot. Once the kernel takes over the BIOS
is no longer used, but up until that point there's no other way to
read the kernel from disk.
Fred
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