> These days, I set up a 24-32MB /boot partition when needed to make
sure
> the kernel is located within the first 1024 cyls. I allow more
space in
> /boot for SMP systems or systems which need special drivers where I
> would tend to have multiple kernel versions that I want to boot. I
have
> even had a case where "/boot" was on a partition of /dev/hda and "/"
was
> on partition of /dev/hdc and it works fine.
I haven't seen anyone mention this since the subject has come up
again, but new versions of lilo do not suffer the 1024 cylinder
limitation.
I had a 30GB drive with Win2k in the first 10GB. The Linux partition
took up the rest of the drive (and was definitely *completely* above
1024 cylinders). I could not boot it at all except by floppy, so I
fetched a new lilo, built/installed it, and...no more problems with
1024 cylinders (and no more floppy required).
This was with 6.2; I have no idea if 7.0 has the fixed lilo or not.
HTH,
Fred
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