boot=/dev/hda7
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
vga=791
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
        label=linux
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda7

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I did not "fiddle" with Linux at all before this error appeared !

Therefore I cannot really point to what has been changed or went wrong.

Under the Internet I found many, many errors entries pointing to LILO not
being able to load in a disk that is above the 1024 cylinders
In my case LILO always worked so far, and I did not surely changed the disk
size, done any repartitioning under Windows NT nor under Linux.


Under Windows, I have run Program => PartitionMagic =>PartitionInfo and I am
attaching the output of the command to this email in case you need to see in
details my machine's partitioning.


ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE IT
===================

Thinking that the latest version of LILO "could" have fixed this problem, I
have downloaded LILO 21.6.1-1 from
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/lilo-21.6.1-1.i386.html

I have then upgraded my LILO with : "rpm -Uhv <nomefile>.rpm"

The upgrade completed fine, and then when I try to run /sbin/lilo I got: