Don't know about you, but I couldn't get lilo to boot with a 540 mb drive, even though linux & lilo were in the 1st partition that was 480 mb and I used the last 35 mb or so for swap. Drive has 1049 cyl, 16 heads and 63 sec /track. Wouldn't boot unless I used the "linear" option in red hat 5.0. Couldn't make it boot at all in Debian, so gave up.
I agree there is some serious discrepancies in the FAQs, HOWTOs, etc, but I for one don't know where to begin fixng it all. LBA problems are real, butI don't know "why..." Anyone else have peculiar successes or failures? Dave Jones ---------- > From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit > Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 8:35 PM > > On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 06:42:19PM +0000, Patrick Meidl wrote: > > after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. > > I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th > > cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution > > might be to have these partitions: > > With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems > booting Linux from the last 500mb of a 1.6gb drive; the 1024 limit > only takes you to 528mb or so. I boot NT 2gb into a 6gb drive; no problem. > > I have never encountered any 1024 cylinder problem with Linux. I wish > the documentation would not keep spreading these ideas. > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 > CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
