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Re: LILO and big HD's



don't have this problem, just for my own knowledge...

doesn't this require a quasi-new bios?  since lilo can only bootstrap using
whatever services the bios allows.

pete


On Sun 25 Feb 01,  1:02 PM, David B . Harris said: 
> To quote Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch>,
> # Hi
> # 
> # I have win and lin insalled on my computer
> # unfortunally windows must be on the first partition wich is 20 GB's
> big. the 
> # next 20 GB's are for debian. Is there any chance to get LILO working
> under 
> # this circumstances (perhaps a new version or something like that)?
> 
> Yup, the more recent version of Debian have large IDE disk support. You
> need to add the line:
> 
> lba32
> 
> to the top of your lilo.conf to enable the code for it. Woody(testing)
> and Sid(unstable)'s LILO packages are fairly recent, but
> Potato(stable)'s are pretty old.

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