The error report was: warning : device 0x0309 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit Fatal sector39745412 too large for linear mode ( try 'lba32' instead)
The message just gives a warning - all you need to do is when the installer asks about LILO, make sure you disable linear mode and enable lba32. Problem is that your root partition is beyond the first 1024 cylinders, so that LILO cannot boot from it in it's native "linear" mode.
AFAIK, RHL 7.1 has newer versions of LILO, that can handle linear block addressing on the hard-disk. This basically has to deal with the way sectors are addressed on an IDE drive, and the way the bootloader interacts with the BIOS. It should not be a problem with RHL 7.1 - just make sure you enable lba32
Now I'm not able to boot into the linux in anyway. What to do?
DISCLAIMER: Do this at your *OWN* risk.
Boot from the CD-ROM and type Linux rescue at the boot prompt. Now create some temporary directory and mount your root partition by saying
# mount -t ext2 /dev/<whatever> /path/to/temp/directory
Next make the newly mounted partition your new root
# chroot /path/to/temp/directory
Now edit /etc/lilo.conf and make sure it has a line saying "lba32" without the quotes, somewhere at the start.
Now run the command "lilo"
# lilo
This will install LILO on your MBR with lba32 mode enabled, which allows it to boot from partitions that are beyond the first 1024 cylinders, ie approx 8GB.
HTH, SameerDS.
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