Sigh. If your BIOS has int13 LBA extentions and you are running lilo 21 or later; (Debian Potato ships with this) you are not restricted to the 1024 cylinder boundary if you are booting Linux and LILO is in the mbr. You can't boot windows past the 2gig mark; that's a bug in the dos boot sector. On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:07:55PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Yes, this is correct. > I speak from personal experience. > You can get arround by creating a root partition from which lilo can boot. > This partition absolutely cannot exceed the maxium boot drive size required by your bios. > Greg > > -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net alternatives: kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ UIN: 8226547
