On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, albert e martinez eet stnt wrote:
> 1) How many MBR's per hard drive? One per hard drive or one per
> partition?
The Master Boot Record is one for each hard drive.
> 2) Linux fdisk tells me that the number of cylinders on my HDD is
> 13328, as does the label on my HDD. BTW, the size of my hard drive is
> 6448MB. Furthermore, this can cause problems with:
> a) software that runs at boot time (e.g, LILO)
> b) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK).
BIOS has (had?) a limit. It means that BIOS can't boot a
partition that is after the 1024 cylinder. In this case it's best to make
a dos partition for the system and a couple of other stuff (let's say
300M) and than a Linux root partition (about 100-150M). These will be the
partitions you will boot. The rest of the hard drive can be partitioned
any way you want it.
Raider
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