Hi Micheal, My own hard drive reports 7944 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors to give me some 4 gig. Don't know the hard drive type though. In fact any detailed specs like that seem a little hard to get for my laptop. However I know hardrives come out with lba mode 3 or so years ago, but some of the motherboards I have also support large disk mode. I have no idea what the difference is, or even if this would make a difference to booting above 1024 cyl, but I definately set my linux partitions on the last 500 meg of the hard drive. I used fips to resize the partition to 3.5 gig, and I mount win98 as hda1. Anyone else out there who might actually know what they are talking about, instead of me blabbering on? cheers Johann Michael Trausch wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > When did BIOSes start supporting booting over 1024cyl? I was unaware that > such a thing actually did occur... every system I've *ever* seen > (including our own Pentium II) exhibits this type of behavior (the 1024 > cyl limit, that is). > > - Mike > > ===================================================================== > Michael B. Trausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] > V: (419) 838-8104 F: (815) 846-9374 > > "Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that > curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly." > - Arnold Edinborough > > ** Apparently, there are problems with my PGP key. This message ** > ** will go away after I have fixed these problems ** > > If you do not have my public PGP key, you are encouraged to obtain it > from my website at http://www.wcnet.org/~mtrausch/mykey.zip. You need > to have PGP 5.0i or newer to use the key. > ===================================================================== > > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, s142433 wrote: > > > Hi Jeremy, > > > > > > > delete ... > > > > > > > > > The reason being is that > > > if your linux boot information is not within the first > > > 1024 cylinders of the drive, LILO will not be able to > > > boot into linux. > > > > > > > This was a problem with older bios, but newer ones don't have this > > limitation anymore. I boot linux on the last 500meg of my 4 gig h/d. > > However I believe there are some bios's with an 8 gig limit. > > > > cheers > > > > Johann > > > > -- > > Johann Kwiatkowski > > Spot The Dog Graphics > > P.O. Box 79, Moorooka, > > Qld, Australia, 4105 > > mobile 0418 797 419 > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBNtC1TRjf2mx8Omu9AQFSzAQAjDAiVP7ORnnL5SoJt4K/uR740nW+fmqK > AdUI/6iW1k6pOc6C8ucgSGbYh7YaaYUJ5kPnm9XCO9ZFtzLi0C9IqBCbTUGk1WtV > OKwCwD7LQmNpCbwxKcwM9b29J3/u4xFegv+68uHprcBYIwZ9dkfbqxk1ElYCUo7z > 6LUhNM9MJQ8= > =yFQE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Johann Kwiatkowski Spot The Dog Graphics P.O. Box 79, Moorooka, Qld, Australia, 4105 mobile 0418 797 419 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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