RE: Slightly OT linux dummy question

["Dave Engvall" <dengvall-at-charter.net>]

Hi Paul,
That is good news....so what makes the difference...the version of lilo or
the OS?

Dave Engvall

-----Original Message-----
From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:26 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Slightly OT linux dummy question




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.