Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:39:46 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Booting Linux past the 8Gig boundary? |
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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, > > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > | SciTech Software - Building Truly Plug'n'Play Software! | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Kendall Bennett | Email: KendallB@scitechsoft.com | > | Director of Engineering | Phone: (530) 894 8400 | > | SciTech Software, Inc. | Fax : (530) 894 9069 | > | 505 Wall Street | ftp : ftp.scitechsoft.com | > | Chico, CA 95928, USA | www : http://www.scitechsoft.com | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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