[NTLUG:Discuss] Boot Partition Too Big?

[Jim Wildman]

Versions of lilo < 21.5 must have the entire boot partition residing
below cylinder 1024 of the hard drive.  The actual number of megs varies
with the hard drive.  And there may be problems with the BIOS as well.
Here is the announcement for lilo 21.5 from freshmeat.

	Updates to support booting from disks > 1024 cylinders using a new
	lba32 option (-L new command line switch), and a menu-driven user
	interface to the Linux boot process. This release is fully
	backward compatible with earlier releases.

lilo currently is at v21.6.  I don't have a RH 6.2 cd handy to determine
what version shipped with the official copy.

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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Dennis Myhand wrote:

> Hi Again to All:
>
> I have had to redo things here in Waco and I have been trying to get my
> Linux installed on hlaf of a 15.3 gig drive.  When I try to install
> Redhat 6.2 I get the message in disk druid that the boot partition is
> too large and I can't go any further.  When I try SuSE 6.3, everything
> seems to load fine, but when I boot (either from LILO or a boot disk) I
> get the kernel panic error and there is no image found.  Anyone know how
> I can get around either of these problems?  Thanks, Dennis in Waco
>
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