My first guess at the lack of '-L' as a default is that it's a
relatively new (about a year old) option. It's my understanding that it
will NOT work if the system BIOS doesn't support LBA32 geometry.
The other problem I can see right now is that the man page is about
five years out of date. The RedHat 7.0 system I'm working at right now has
LiLo v21.4-4, and a man page from 28 July 1995 (v18?). There is, of
course, no mention of '-L' OR lba32 in that manual.
--
-Matt
You can't fall off the floor.
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Mansur, Warren wrote:
> I think this is what Jerry was referring to, but using lilo -L instead of
> just lilo fixed the problem for me. My install definitely exceeded to 1024
> limit, and lilo wouldn't add it until I used lilo -L. Once I used the -L
> flag it worked perfectly. Anyone want to take a stab at why the -L flag
> isn't the default? It seems it would make things easier, as it took me a
> while to figure out how to break the 1024 limit, and in searching for the
> answer I saw tons of posts from confused people with the same problem.
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