On 18 Nov 1998, Carey Evans wrote: : Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > On the other hand, Linux doesn't need the BIOS information at all (I : > have a few machines where the BIOS has no idea I've even got IDE drives, : > but Linux knows). If you're only running Linux you're ok. : : Not quite. If you're using LILO to boot off the drive, /boot/vmlinuz : has to be in a part of the disk that the BIOS sees. The easiest way : to do this is to make a small /boot partition at the start of the drive.
You are correct of course, and I omitted the fact that the machines in question boot from SCSI (but would want to boot from IDE if they knew the drives existed :) Oh well. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
