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Author: Pete Buechler
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Subject: Debian convert??
On Friday 27 July 2001 21:47, you wrote:
> > I may be wrong, but I think the 1024 cyl limit for LILO has been fixed
> > over a year ago... I have several partitions that I boot off of and
> > most if not all of them are well above 1024.
> >
> > EBo --
>
> I think the CD's I got were right befre that change in LILO happened.
> I tried to install not too long ago and LILO hung at LI. I assumed the
> reason being was the 124 limit.
>


Stopping after LI is usually due to a disk geometry problem. I had that same
problem and I found it was because the default LILO uses the LBA32 option and
my BIOS does not support that. In /etc/lilo.conf, comment out the line
"lba32", put in a line that simply reads "linear". Run LILO and try to boot
again.

Keep your boot floppy handy, just in case!

-Pete-