Re: Slightly OT linux dummy question

[Paul <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>]

Not true with the more recent versions of lilo. The 1024 cylinder limit has 
been overcome, so it does not matter where the boot partition resides.

Regards, Paul.


On Monday 13 Jan 2003 7:09 pm, Jon Elson wrote:
> First, Linux needs a boot partition (which may be quite small, just 10
> mB or so) which
> is within the first 1024 cylinders on the hard drive.  If you can't
> arrange that, then you
> need to always boot Linux with the help of a floppy.