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Article #1658error geo-comp-addr: cylinder number is too big (2127 > 1023)
From: me
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 00:00
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error geo-comp-addr: cylinder number is too big (2127 > 1023) my pc spec: celeron 366 64 mb abit mother board have win2000, nt and 98 installed already had no problem with RH6.0 doing the same. fresh install RH6.2 - could not get it to boot using lilo and could not boot from nt/win2000 by using bootsec.lyn (created from boot floppy or hdc1). hdc1 (2nd hard drive first partition) is the partition where i installed RH6.2 (RH6.0 previously), running lilo in sbin i got the above msg and if i try to have the boot record install in hdc1 a get a msg saying that hdc1 is no the first disk - then cylinder number is too big (2127 > 1023) try just win98 and the RH6.2 - lilo is installed in MBR, but when started pc - just get l (ilo) and then 000s could anyone tell me if its the kernal or lilo is doing this
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