On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Regarding the disk being too large, the partition that the system boots > > from should be entirely within the low 1023 cylinders. I handled this by > > creating a separate partition (about 40 MB) for "/", and a larger one for > > "/usr". Other than that, the disk size is not a concern, and this is a > > BIOS limitation, not a Linux one. > > Should not be a problem with LBA -- my Linux root partition is > the last 700mb of a 1.6gb drive, ie well after 1023 cylinders.
Does this mean that you boot with lilo on such a drive? LBA takes care of the problem? This would be good news for me if it were true. Thanks. Syrus. ---------------------------------------------------------- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
