Not quite agree with you. He has his /boot within the 1024
boundary. That should have taken care of everything.
:-)
Auyeung
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: I'm in LILO hell
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 07:54:05PM -0700, Net Llama wrote:
> >
> > Disk /dev/hdd: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 3877 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hdd1 1 677 5118088+ b Win95
FAT32 Win98
> > /dev/hdd2 678 680 22680 83 Linux
/boot
> > /dev/hdd3 * 681 1521 6357960 83 Linux
/
> > /dev/hdd4 1522 3877 17811360 5
Extended
> > /dev/hdd5 1522 1566 340168+ 82 Linux
swap
> > /dev/hdd6 1567 2599 7809448+ 83 Linux
/usr
> > /dev/hdd7 2600 3877 9661648+ 83 Linux
/opt
> >
> If I understand this, hdd3 does extend above 1021 or
whatever cylinders. It
> is where the partition ends, not start, that is important.
Sometimes, by
> chance, you get away with this, if by chance your boot
files happen to lie
> beneath the cylinder limit. I would make hdd3 smaller,
into a nice boot
> partition, all lying below 1021 or whatever. In fact, you
might want to make
> several small boot partitions below 1021, just in case you
get the urge to
> add more versions of linux.
> Joel
>
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