lilo (Re: Help!?)

[Wesley Leonard <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw on slashdot that the new lilo broke the 1024 barrier.  I don't
know if it's being distributed yet... here's the story:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/27/124227&mode=thread

awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:
> 
> 
> Lilo cannont boot an OS that is more that 1024 cylinders (or some
> limitation) from the beginning of the hard drive.  This is a weird
> BIOS/IDE limitation.  I'd wager this is one of them pile-o-gigabyte
> drives?  You'll have to boot from a floppy or create a small /boot
> parition to install the kernel closer to the "head" of the harddrive.
> The "latest" version of LILO is said to overcome this limitation so
> you might want to look into that,  but I heard that through the grape
> vine, and don't know what it's worth yet.

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