[NTLUG:Discuss] multiple distros on one system

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Thu Jan 10 23:12:38 CST 2002


Bug Hunter wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Chris Cox wrote:
> 
> > Bug Hunter wrote:
> > >  It still won't boot kernels on cylinders > 1024, but GRUB will.
> > >
> > This hasn't been true for quite some time.  Uses the same tricks that
> > everyone else has to do.
> 
>   That is what I thought.  My latest Mandrake 8.1 using LILO failed to
> boot when the kernel was on a cylinder > 1024.  It USED to not have a
> problem, briefly, about a year (?) ago.  But something is broken again.

The LILO option is:
lba32

Of course, it assumes the HW can handle it as well..should work though
(I think I've tried it recently enough.. but I prefer SuSE).




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