Well, speaking approximately, the same disk could have it's 1024th
cylinder at the end of the first 8GB or the first 500MB depending upon
the disk label.A disk with C cylinders, H heads and S sectors per track
has C*H*S sectors and can store C*H*S*512 bytes.For example for a 20 GB
hard disk it could be C=2482 H=255 S=63 or C=39560 H=16 S=63.Practically
I have found that even if the boot partition is within the first 1024
cylinders the old lilo cant boot my system unless the root partition
also starts within the first 1024 cylinders.
"M.Chandrashekhar (96D07008)" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, dayalan manohar wrote:
>
> > Please shift this to LIH.
> >
> > > it.And use fdisk while installing in linux. (make sure your /boot comes
> > > within first 1024 cylinders,
> > >
> > > DOS * |----> make sure these both take max 7GB
> > > dos extended |
>
> I just meant an approximation not calculator :-)
>
> chandra
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> >
> > Depending on the CHS translation used the size of the partiition within
> > the first 1024 cylinders may vary.It is better to use a calculater in
> > conjunction with the information from fdisk.
> >
> > >
> > > 3> install linux "only" ...Goodbye windows :-)
> > >
> > Yes,Sir,thats what I've done and never looked back!
> >
> > > > i also tried changing "linear " to "lba32 " in the
> > > > /etc/lilo.conf file
> >
> > without lba32 my system does not boot from beyond the 1024 limit even
> > with the new lilo.
> >
> >
> > > > > the primary C partition is less than 8 gb. The boot boundary limit is 8
> > > > > gb. So if ur first primary partition (ie. C drive) is more than that then
> > The boundry limit depends on cylinders.The size limit depends on the CHS
> > translation so such a statement is not necessarily true.
> >
> > regards,
> > Dayalan Manohar
> >
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