On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Vaibhav Sakhalkar wrote:
> suse 6.3 has a 1024 cylinder limitation, for installation on a large
> hard disk. do all the distr of linux have the same limitation as suse.
> kindly let me know which distr do not have the limitation.
This is not a limitation of suse or linux or any operating system. It is
a problem with your BIOS. Some older bioses do not like a boot record
sitting on a cylinder > 1023. You would have this problem with every
single OS. Either get a new BIOS or install the boot record for linux
within the first 1024 cylinders.
Philip
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