Paul Gu wrote:
> It is hard to say. I have two 10G hard drives. One is Maxtor UDMA-2 as
> slave on one computer with Intel Triton Chip(Master hard drive Maxtor
> 6.4G), the other is Western Digital UDMA-4 Hard drive as Master and
> SamSung 4.3 GB UDMA-2 as slave with SIS 5513 IDE Chipset. In first
> scenerio I was able to install Mandrake 6.0, and on sceond scenrio it
> always hung-up when I tried to FDISK, but I was able to install Redhat
> 6.0 to it.
>
> However, LILO use some BIOS calls and it is absolutely limited to first
> 1024 cylinder. So you have to make sure you create a small partition
> within first 1024 cylinder and mount it as /boot. I only use one
> cylinder (8MB) for this purpose. Besides, In FDISK, you have to use "a"
> (no quote) to make it bootable.
>
> John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> > > Is there a way to get LILO to install on a big drive ( with more than
> > > 1024 cyl . ) I believe that's why it won't install on my system .
> > >
> > Well, I've never done it before, but I'm told that RedHat 6.0 will install on a
> > large drive (13 gig IDE) without having to use a boot floppy, and since
> > Mandrake is based heavily on RedHat, it should work for you.
> >
> > --
> > John Aldrich
> > COL Tech Support
> > =======================================
> > Chattanooga Online Internet
> > 423-267-8867
Ok I created a small partition 20MB at the front of the disk . I set it as active .
But I don't understand mount it as /boot ?
Thanks
jsm
