Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:27, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > Jake....yes with 7.0 you do need to make sure that the
> > partition that contains the kernal ends before the 1024th
> > cylinder of your drive. This is of no concern if the
> > drive you're using is 8 megs or less in size as 8 megs
> > correlates
>
> Don't you mean 8 gigs?
Sridhar....duh! I sure do!!! Thanks for pointing that out!
> > to 1023 cylinders. But if the drive is greater than 8
> > megs then the easiest way to assure the kernal isn't in a
> > partition that crosses the 1024 cylinder boundary is to
> > create a small (mine are 8 megs) partition first and
> > during installation assign that one the mount point
> > /boot.
>
> If you upgrade LILO to the latest version, use GRUB, or
> simply use Mandrake 7.2, then you will have no 1024
> cylinder problem.
--
Alan
