I think I remember that your root partition needed to be below about 20g to boot properly with lilo even with the lba option. Kerry Hoath <kerry at gotss.net> writes: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
