When upgrading from an existing 5.2 install, the installer tried to reinstall the lilo bootloader. I had / (and hence /boot) installed on /dev/hdb3, which was at the 3000 cylinder mark. The installer told me that lilo had failed, but didn't offer an explanation of why, or what to do about it.
assigned to msw tp take a look at. Althiuogh I would guess that this is a "-it hurts when I do this! -don't do that, then" kind of problem.
Still, we should display some sort of suggestion / warning message that is more descriptive, shouldn't we? So that the un-clueful user who has never encountered this limitation before can at least take some steps towards fixing it.