Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.
Rick Jones writes:
> > New BIOS may support cylinders higher than 1023, but old BIOS doesn't.
> > Lilo may not make a distinction. I think you should check again what
> > cylinder hda2 starts on. The important fact is where the disk blocks for
> > your *kernel* are. With a large disk people often create a root
>
> I was thinking that it was in the range since it was in / God knows why.
>
> > partition which the *know* is well withing 1024 cylinders so that the
> > kernel is always guaranteed to be within range.
> >
Don't forget that if you use LILO's "message" parameter, the
file it refers to must also be accessible to LILO!
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