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Re: can someone explain this??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Sun Nov 8 03:36:33 1998
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 08:33:58 -0000
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to tell you the truth.. this question is about an experimental kernel.. and
I don't know why it's such a big wonder why there are problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: can someone explain this??
>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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