On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, the little plastic letters were pressed in this order:
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > faisal wrote:
> > >
> > > i get an error while partitioning my hard disk during LM 7.0 installation
> > > which is your cylender are set to 1048 which exceeds 1024 limit ...... this
> > > will cause problem for lilo to boot .
> > > how can we change it ?
> >
> > When you're partitioning your drive to install linux on create a
> > partition named /boot and define it's size as 15MB. That will take care
> > of that problem for you. The other partitions can be what ever size you
> > need them to be.
> >
> Or just install anyway, and make a boot disk. Then, go get the
> updated LILO from the COOKER archive and install it. You'll have to
> boot off the rescue floppy a time or two, but that'll get around the
> 1024 cylinder problem as well. :-)
> John
I use GRUB and haven't had any problems at all with the 1024 cylinder limit,
it's much nicer to use compared to LILO. The first time I tried GRUB it could
find and boot my root partition inside an extended DOS partition in the high
end of my hard disk, I was pleasantly surprised. :)
