Re: >8GB drive partitioning

[Adam Klein <aklein@scn.org>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:20:55PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:55:41PM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> > Also keep in mind that your Linux root partition should be within the
				      ^^^^
> > first 1024 cylinders of the drive, or it will not boot with Lilo (or
> > Loadlin I believe also). 
> 
> That limitation applies to lilo but not to loadlin.
> 
> Observe:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3             3.8G  3.1G  492M  86% /
> /dev/hda1             2.0G  1.4G  563M  72% /mnt/windows95
> 
> (/dev/hda2 is swap, and sits between these two).
> 
> My root partition doesn't start until after 2 gigs into the drive, which is
> well past the 1024th cylinder.
> 
> I use loadlin to boot with no trouble.

I believe he meant to say boot, not root.  lilo can mount the root from
anywhere on the disk, it just needs the kernel to be in the first 1024 cyls.

	Adam