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My resident hardware expert was trying to explain about real and 
interpreted cylinders.  Maybe yours are interpreted (the 993 cylinders for 
4GB) and you really have 9000 or so and are really beyond the limit?

When I tried to install lilo with linux in the second gigabyte of several 
hard disks, it would not work until I put the boot.b and kernel in the 
first gigabyte, so give it a try anyway (you can install lilo to /dev/fd0 
while learning).


> > You are right it IS cylinders but this may
> > still be your problem. My 4.3GB has nearly
> > 9000 cylinders so if you put linux in the
> > last quarter of your 4GB, you are way beyond
> > the 1024 cylinder limit.
>
> Hmm ... well then, no, that's not why i'm
> having a problem. My hard-drive only has
> 993 cylinders. Here's my fdisk -l again:
>
> ------------------
> /<#>fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/hda: 4099 MB, 4099866624 bytes
> 128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes

Sindi