6 Jul
2001
6 Jul
'01
12:24 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, noel seq wrote:
Make sure you put the lilo within 1024 cylinders because older kernels have this limitation. Fdisk (from linux cd) will give you
It's lilo, not the kernel that has the limitation. If the kernel had a limitation, then you wouldn't be able to use a harddisk larger than 1024 cylinders. Since it is lilo that has the problem, only your kernel image needs to be within 1024 cylinders. Once the kernel is loaded, all limits are lifted.
Philip
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