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Re: Largedisk-HOWTO clarifcation



On Saturday 29 December 2001 12:33 am, P Prince wrote:
> This is true, however, the big implication of BIOS limitations for Linux is
> the fact that while the Linux kernel does not address the disk space via
> the BIOS, your boot loader (LILO) does.  The boot loader must load the
> kernel from your disk, and therefore at least your kernel must be
> accessable via the BIOS addressing scheme.

Ah okay, then now I get what was said in the HOW-TO. Maybe I should have read 
the whole way through but shouldn't the bit about 1024 cycinder limmit be 
self explantory?

Ani



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