Lilo geo_comp_addr Error with 2.4.0

[Kerry Hoath]

If you have a new enough version of lilo set lba32
in the global section to allow the bios to talk to cylinders above >1024.
Lilo needs the bios to load the kernel so most people create a 10-20meg /boot
partition <1024 to hold lilo boot maps and kernel images.

If your bios supports the phoenix int13 extentions (most do) then setting lba32
in the global section should make lilo work.

Regards, Kerry.
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:43:22PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> The kernel is a bzImage of 651,696 bytes. Is that too large? Seems to me
> that this should just make it.
> 
> The exact error lilo is reporting is:
> 
> geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1530 > 1023)
> 
> Sure sounds like the old "keep it below 1024"
> 
> There was one other problem, now that I look back at the logs. 'make
> modules_install' complained about depmod -f. I ran depmod -a 2.4.0 by
> hand, but is this perhaps not the same thing? Might this be a modules
> issue?
> 
> 
> 
> On 8 Jan 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> 
> > Hi Again Janina:  Check the size of the kernel you built.  Did you
> > compile it as a zImage or a bzImage?  Looks more like lilo is
> > complaning about the size of the kernel rather than the size of the
> > drive.
> > 
> >   Kirk
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