--- Sudhir Sharma ssudhir_sharma@yahoo.com wrote:
Hai Everyone, While installing linux, I was prompted to have the primary partition within the first 1024 cylinders. What is the significance of this message?
Older versions of LILO could only boot off a boot partition within the first 1024 cylinders of the hard disk. This was due to a BIOS issue, since most BIOS'es did not recognize disks of larger than 1024 cyls. However, recent versions of LILO have a workaround to fix this problem.
This happened when I was installing in dual OSmode with Win 2000 as the other OS. This never happened with the previous versions of windows. Is it to do anything with the partition size. If yes, then why not with other versions of windows as I could install linux having win98 with the same size partitions.
Dunno why, since you say that the partition size for both Win 9x and Win2K were identical. However, please remember that Win2K comes with its own bootloader, unlike Win9x. This may have created a problem with LILO. I believe there is a HOWTO on using Win NT (Win 2K is just a renamed Win NT) with Linux. Check it out on linuxdoc.org.
Rgds,
Krishnan
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