[1639] in linux-scsi channel archive
RE: How do I partition my hard drives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Johannes)
Mon Mar 31 13:11:38 1997
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:08:28 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
To: Ed Fletcher <efletch@ampsc.com>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970331093203.efletch@ampsc.com>
Thanks Ed, talking about Lilo, I actually once had trouble getting lilo to
boot when I was running only linux on the ide drive which is 2.1 gigs. I
hear that Lilo has trouble booting when it gets physically located beyond
the 1024th cylinder?!? Now I have no problem with it, because the hard
drive is equally divided between linux and dos. But since I'll be going
back to the original setup where linux occupies the entire drive, how do I
circumnavigate past this limitation of lilo? Lilo could only show
something like this: LI and ofcourse hangs. I have read about what those
segments of the word "LILO" mean, in terms of what went wrong, but that
didn't help me solve the problem. Any suggestions on how to evade that?
Regards
robert
> You should have no problems running your system with this configuration. Linux
> will put Lilo onto the mbr of the ide drive and that will handle the dual boot.
> Dos will be happy using the scsi drive and it willl not even know that the ide
> drive is there. Linux will, of course, have access to the dos partition if
> you choose to mount it.
>
> Cheers,
> Ed
>
> --
> Ed Fletcher
> ug853@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
>
