[NTLUG:Discuss] "Boot Sector too Large?"

[Kevin Brannen]

Go get the latest Lilo.  You may be running into the problem of your
boot/root partition being beyond the 1023rd cylinder.  The newest Lilo
can get around that problem.

HTH,
Kevin


Dennis Myhand wrote:
> 
> Hi All:
> 
> I just rebuilt my system at home after a mobo crash and went to a larger
> 15.3gig hard drive from my old 8.4gig.  Now when I try to install RH6.2
> I get the message that my boot sector, or boot partition, is too large,
> and when I try to do SuSE6.3 and tell it to put LILO on a floppy, it
> will not write to the disk.  I know this is a LILO issue, and that it
> has been covered before in this group, but could someone point me in the
> right direction for fixing this?  Thanks, Dennis in Waco
> 
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