Re: How big is my H/D ?
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, wb2oyc wrote:
> Not so. Just make sure that your DOS partition and any Linux root is
> completely within the limits of the 504MB. The problem comes from the
> BIOS being old and not permitting access to cylinders beyond the 1024
> limit.
>
> Linux doesn't have any problem with that, UNLESS you use Lilo. Linux
> itself DOES NOT use the BIOS, but Lilo does, and that is why any root
> must be within the limits of the BIOS itself.
In fact it is not necessary to have the whole root partition below the
1024th cylinder. The only requirement is that all files used by Lilo at
the boot time should be located on the cylinders below the 1024th one.
In my computer (which has such an old BIOS) I have a small 4MB boot
partition below the 1024th cylinder. I have moved there a
contents of the Debian's "/boot" directory, and mounted it as /boot.
(
Quoted from /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda2 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
)
Everything works fine, leaving 500MB free for M$ DOS or FreeDos.
Wojtek Zabolotny
wzab@ipe.pw.edu.pl
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