a few things

[John Covici]

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
> > 
> > 
> 
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