Rick Jones writes: > > New BIOS may support cylinders higher than 1023, but old BIOS doesn't. > > Lilo may not make a distinction. I think you should check again what > > cylinder hda2 starts on. The important fact is where the disk blocks for > > your *kernel* are. With a large disk people often create a root > > I was thinking that it was in the range since it was in / God knows why. > > > partition which the *know* is well withing 1024 cylinders so that the > > kernel is always guaranteed to be within range. > >
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