[wplug] help interperting errors in messages log

Jonathan S Billings billings at negate.org
Wed Aug 20 11:28:45 EDT 2003


Neither GRUB nor recent versions of LILO have this problem.  Switching
to grup involves installing the grub packages and writing a grub.conf. 
You might want to consider using redhat's 'grubby' tool.


On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:38, squeegy-wplug at squeegy.org wrote:
> When you say ditching it what do you exactly mean?  ditching lilo?  grub does not have this problem?  how do I switch if that is the case?
> 
> Jt Chiodi
> > 
> > > It is a hard drive.  an old 2gb drive.  I am running the latest Red 
> > > Hat 8.0 kernel.  right now only /boot and swap are on this drive.  I 
> > > couldn't put /boot on the newer drive without re-partitioning it and 
> > > losing everything.  I tried to just put the files in a directory 
> > > /boot, but it wouldn't boot due toi the 1023 limit for lilo.
> > 
> > I suggest using the lba32 option in lilo, or ditching it entirely, if 
> > you want to boot past the 1024 barrier.
> > 
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