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Re: Organizing Linux Installation Parties
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Only one more thing I don't know why but you must put your vmlinuz, in
> the first 1024Mb, else the system will not boot, since fs can put it
> anywhere you need your boot partition to be finished before 1024Mb.
> I'm talking about booting with lilo
The problem lies within old BIOSes, not LILO or Linux.
Here's an extract from the LARGE-IDE mini-howto:
"The problem is that the BIOS still can't be used to access cylinders
above 1023. So all of your DOS partitions will have to be below that
limit, as will anything which needs to be accessed through the BIOS.
For example, LILO uses the BIOS to do its dirty work; so if you want
to use LILO to boot Linux, you will have to make sure the kernel
(read: entire root partition) lies below the 1024 cylinder limit.
Linux itself, however, will happily access the entire drive.:
Note however that new BIOSes have no such restrictions and so, AFAIK, this
is no longer true on newer BIOSes and LILO should be able to boot from
anywhere your heart desires.
G.
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