AW: Re: FC5 new install - using lilo - kernel panic

[joe at illegal-access.de]

If your linux is on hda6... that partition starts with a cylinder >= 1024... lilo has problems to access that area... So... better to give grub a try.

cu,
Joe

>On 6/21/06, joe at illegal-access.de <joe at illegal-access.de> wrote:
>> Give us the output of "fdisk -l", please.
>>
>
>
>
>[3] root:/home/sero # fdisk -l
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hda1   *           1        1217     9775521   83  Linux
>/dev/hda2            1218        1340      987997+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
>/dev/hda3            1341        3773    19543072+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda4            3774        9729    47841570    5  Extended
>/dev/hda5            3774        8637    39070048+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda6            8638        9729     8771458+  83  Linux
>
>Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hdb1   *           1        1216     9767488+  83  Linux
>/dev/hdb2            1217        6080    39070080   83  Linux
>/dev/hdb3            6081       14591    68364607+  83  Linux
>/dev/hdb4           14592       19457    39086145    5  Extended
>/dev/hdb5           14592       19457    39086113+  83  Linux
>
>
>thanks
>sc
>
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