On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 08:20:06AM -0800, linda hanigan wrote:
> > I used bootmagic for a short period, and it would not
> boot past the 1024
> > cylinder. How did you accomplish this? My 1024 limit
> isn't until around the 8
> > gig limitd on my 20gig grive (or Partition Magic told
> me when I played around
> > with creating the partitions.) I've been using Boot
> It Lite,
> > www.terabyteunlimited.com, and while its not pretty
> like bootmagic,
>
> Ok I don't know what I am talking about. The guy that builds my
> computers told me if I wanted /boot to be below the 1024 limit my
> first partition had be smaller than 550, I have all my machines dual
> boot so they will do the warranty work on them. (They just shake
> their heads when I talk about Linux) The last machine I actually use
> Windows on so I used boot magic so I could leave the first half of
> the drive for windows. Soon I am having a cdrw drive put in and will
> have them wipe the drive clean and reinstall. Does this mean I could
> just use lilo and skip boot magic.
Where the 1024 limit falls depends on the addressing scheme, typically
set in the BIOS. Typically, 550M is it when no attempt is made to
change the way the BIOS reports c/h/s. Just by turning on LBA, this
often puts 1024 around 8G -- big difference for the exact same drive.
For Lilo to boot, /boot needs to be below 1024.
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