Yes, I agree. But on my 15Gb HDD lilo will only display LI and hangs up the
system if BOTH boot and swap are not in the first 1024. I don't explain,
just see the facts. I'm running RHL 6.2. Is ths so old?
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Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: IDE disk geometry
> >
> > Alex Sofronie wrote:
> > > geometry. Also, you must have the swap partition in the first 1024
cyls
> > > ENTIRELLY. On my system, RHLinux 62 reported something like <<kernel
panic:
> > > could not...>> .
> >
> > I have several systems with the entire swap space well after cyl 1024
> > and have had no problems. The auto partitioning in Pinstripe and
> > Guinness set up swap at the very end of the range of cylinders. I have
> > even booted systems without any swap space at all and ample memory and
> > have had no problems. I have had systems with the swap space on a disk
> > other than the "first" hard disk. I have had swap space on a RAID-0 MD
> > device. AFAIK there is no 1024 cylinder limitation w.r.t. swap space.
> > Possibly it is a limitation if you don't have enough memory, or are
> > using an old version of lilo or older kernel rev. Might the "linear"
> > option also make a difference where geometry problems are involved?
> >
> > These days, I set up a 24-32MB /boot partition when needed to make sure
> > the kernel is located within the first 1024 cyls. I allow more space in
> > /boot for SMP systems or systems which need special drivers where I
> > would tend to have multiple kernel versions that I want to boot. I have
> > even had a case where "/boot" was on a partition of /dev/hda and "/" was
> > on partition of /dev/hdc and it works fine.
> >
>
> Access to swap is entirely a Linux not BIOS matter so it conforms to
> Linux not BIOS restrictions. In other worsds there is no 1024 limit
> for swap.
>
> There are there three things who must conformd to BIOS restrictions:
> the boot loader, the kernel and initrd. However the GRUB boot loader
> seems to be abe to can access kernels and in initrds who are beyond
> the 1024 cylinder or in the second IDE controller. Perhaps modern
> BIOSSes don't have those stringent limits.
>
> --
> Jean Francois Martinez
>
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> http://www.independence.seul.org
>
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