- LILO configuration error
- Posted by Prabal on March 7th, 2004
Hi,
I am trying to use LILO to multiboot but no suceess. I have Win 98
on HDD1, Solaris and Linux on HDD2. Here is my lilo.conf file:
prompt
timeout=50
default=Windows 98
boot=/dev/hdb2
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
read-only
root=/dev/hdb2
other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=Windows 98
other=/dev/hdb1
label=Solaris
The error I get when I run /sbin/lilo is:
Warning: current root is not on the first drive.
Warning: device 0x342 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit.
Fatal: ge_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1595 > 1023)
I appreciate anyone helping me.
ThanQ
Prabal
- Posted by Michael Heiming on March 7th, 2004
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In comp.os.linux.misc Prabal <prabalmys@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Either upgrade lilo to a recent version, which supports having
the kernel on cylinder >1024, or move the kernel to partition
that is below 1024, 'fdisk/cfdisk' should know.
Best idea would be upgrading the whole Linux system, that's a
really old kernel, full of security exploits.
Good luck
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- Posted by Michael C. on March 7th, 2004
On 7 Mar 2004 11:14:22 -0800,
Prabal <prabalmys@hotmail.com> wrote:
Are you sure that's where you want to install lilo? You need a second
boot loader like that. boot=/dev/hda is the mbr.
As Michael Heim mentions, upgrade lilo, RH7.2 has an old version.
Michael C.
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