On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Mike Gorse wrote: > Old versions of lilo needed the kernel to reside below cylinder > 1024. As of version 22.0, lilo uses lba addressing by default > and, thus, is able to boot a kernel residing above cylinder > 1023. This was, in fact, linked to old motherboard BIOS limitations, and may still be a problem in such systems. See the lilo documentation for details and work-arounds if you have one of these older systems (486 systems have plenty of power for text mode linux operation, but soft speech needs low end (ie, obsolete) pentium power). Since old systems will (hopefully) increasingly be recycled for use by print disabled people who can't afford any system now, there will continue to be a need to support the 1024 cylinder limit. This is really not that difficult, and I think that most linux installer programs will deal fairly automatically with that: linux distributors are well aware that lots of retired systems get pulled out of closets and put into service as linux based routers, gateways, firewalls, mail and web servers, and the like, and still, most of the power of these old throw away machines is wasted. Again, current versions of lilo use the newer large disk schemes by default, so recent systems should see no problem. -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid