> On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote: > > [snip] > > Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I > > make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be > > pretty sure that I can at least boot the thing with a floppy? > > I'm pretty sure you can do either and it will work. Even easier: make a > small (10Megs, say) partition for /boot, making sure it is below the 1023 > cylinder boundary. You then put your kernels there and lilo will be able > to find them. Works like a charm for me.
Is this < 1024 cylinders only an issue if you don't have LBA mode? Today I installed Debian 1.1.14 on a 486 machine with LBA, with a 1.08gb Quantum drive. The root partition is about 600mb, which exceeds the 1024 cylinder limit. I couldn't see any problem with this? hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]