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SubjectRe: Booting Linux past the 8Gig boundary?

Go "linear"

# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
# append="mem=255M pci=reverse maxcpus=2"
#
boot = /dev/hda
# compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
linear # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
# delay = 5
#
prompt
# timeout = 100
vga = normal # force sane state
# ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Kendall Bennett wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I have a new Dell Inspiron 7500 system, and I have just installed Red
> Hat 6.1 on it. However my Linux partition is located such that it
> spans the 1024 cylinder boundary on my hard disk (13Gig EIDE), and
> although System Commander trys to boot it, there is no valid
> bootsector on the partition. When I booted off a floppy and tried to
> re-run lilo, it complained about not being able to get past the 1024
> cylinder boundary (and obviously did not install the boot sector).
>
> According to the System Commander folks, most new OS'es such as
> Windows 98 SE and Windows 2000 can boot to partitions past the 1024
> cylinder limit. So I am wondering if there is something I can do to
> solve this problem on my system, and get Linux to boot?
>
> I also want to solve this because I plan to upgrade my disk to 25Gig
> so I can add more OS'es to it (such as FreeBSD and BeOS), but if I
> can't boot those OS'es past 8Gig there is not much point!
>
> Regards,
>
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