Tim Fletcher wrote:
>
> > It's in, but for some strange reason you have to ask for it explicitly
> > with the "lba32" option.
>
> Because the 32bit bios calls lilo uses in lba32 mode can cause problems
> with broken or old bios's hence is defaults to a safe option, and if you
> can't boot withou
> It's in, but for some strange reason you have to ask for it explicitly
> with the "lba32" option.
Because the 32bit bios calls lilo uses in lba32 mode can cause problems
with broken or old bios's hence is defaults to a safe option, and if you
can't boot without it (over 1023 cylinders) then you
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> >That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
> >it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the
> >part of LILO, in my opinion, that
mirabilos wrote:
> >That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
> >it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the
> >part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time
> >ago.
>
> That's why you have to use append="root=bla
>That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
>it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the
>part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time
>ago.
That's why you have to use append="root=blah" for devfs :)
Really it shou
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