The BIOS CANNOT see beyond the 1024th cylinder. Therefore the boot code
must reside below the 1024th cylinder.
I suggest making a 20Mb Linux partition (that resides below the 1024th
cylinder) and mounting it as /boot during your Linux installation. This
insures that all Linux boot code lies below the 1024th cylinder.
Please see the following URL for a better explanation:
http://users.nf/linux/limits.htm
HTH,
Matt
>From: Alek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: NewBie Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [newbie] Lilo >1024 Cyl & 64RAM limit
>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 03:42:59 +0200
>
>Hello,
>I have the linux partition starting about 1404 cyl on a 13GB HDD. I
>tried to make lilo put the boot on every partition on my disk (some of
>them under 1024 cyl of course) but I still get the message Warning,
>1404>1024 blah blah. So the problem is that he cannot address my linux
>partition? I cannot move my partition, that would mean to scramble my
>whole sistem. I'm wandering if there is some workaround.
>Also it does not see more than 64RAM. I have Mandrake 6.0 with 2.2.14
>kernel and I recompiled it with up to 1GB RAM option. But it does not
>work. I read that I can pass with lilo some parameters to the kernel,
>something whit append="mem=256MB" but since I can only start with
>loadlin from dos.... I cannot do that. Im stuck.
>Please, can anyone help?
>Thanks,
>Alek
>
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