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Re: RH and drive cylinders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Fri Nov 20 21:00:00 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 19:07:40 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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It's an old BIOS limitation. Windows, DOS, NT all
put their 'system' files at the beginning
of the disk so the BIOS can find them during boot.
Warnings from LILO can sometimes be ignored.
Just put a line in /etc/lilo.conf containing 1 word:
linear
to increase the chance being able to use over 1024
cylinders just fine.
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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