On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, David Wright wrote: ->> As you notice the number of cylinders are shown to be 8693, too large to ->> make lilo work. Obviously I failed to make the machine boot linux, except ->> through a boot floppy. Otherwise there are no problems during running. -> ->Do take a look at the loadlin package if you want to stop using ->a boot floppy. It'll boot from, say, the ShutDown MSDOS prompt. -> ->Cheers,
Thanks, I was infact wondering about the peculiar geometry problem the debian system has vis a viz suse and redhat. I was told this could be due to the older kernel. After compiling the new kernel I will try again. Nagarjuna Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai. INDIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
