[100467] in RedHat Linux List
RE: RH and drive cylinders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Richardson)
Fri Nov 20 17:47:15 1998
From: Bruce Richardson <brichardson@lineone.net>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 22:43:53 -0000
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<< Would someone please let me know if a drive over 1024
cylinders can be used with Red Hat Linux and if so how? >>
Linux CAN use drives over such a size, easily. It's just that the
PARTITION containing the boot-image must reside entirely below cylinder
1024 if LILO is to safely boot. Normally, the root (/) partition holds the
boot image but if there is not room below 1024 for the whole root you can
put just /boot as a partition below 1024 and then put root anywhere on
your system. Alternatively, you can use a boot disk or boot to DOS and run
LoadLin: either way, it then doesn't matter where your root partition is.
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