On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:45:23PM +1000, Wayne wrote:
-> All of your problems will be solved if you install Linux on the first
-> partition. It likes having the first 1024 cylinders.
Not quite.
LILO requires that the boot image (vmlinuz) and its related files be in
the first 1024 cylinders (0-1023). Mess-DOS and its descendants, w95 and
w98, like to be in the first partition. The way to accomodate both Linux
and W95/98 is to install W95/98, leaving enough cylinders so that you can
create a small partition for Linux such that it is entirely within the
first 1024 cylinders. I make mine 32 MB and always have plenty of room. It
should mount as /boot. Since the install process and kernel update
processes all write boot files to /boot, all the critical files go where
they have to be.
Other partitions such as / and swap may include higher cylinder numbers;
the kernel can handle that. It is LILO which is the problem. I suspect
that that is a BIOS limitation, not something inherent in LILO.
You can also use loadlin, which works quite well and avoids the problem.
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