[lug] Large hard disks.

[Clifford King]

Jason Vallery wrote:

> I just installed a new hard drive on one of my machines. I have 98 on
> /dev/hda1 (10GB partition).
> (I know, I still need windows for some things)
>
> /dev/hda2 is my primary linux partition which is about 3GB.
>
> When I run LILO it complains about my drive being over 1023 cyl.
>
> Anyone have any experiance with this problem? I thought it might be related
> to my bios, so I installed the little ez-bios thing that came with this
> maxtor drive. That diddn't help. It really sucks booting with loadlin every
> time.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>

Not only do you need "linear" in the global section of your lilo.conf file,
but if the BIOS can't address the entire drive correctly, you will have
problems if the kernel image isn't located in the first part of the drive  the
BIOS can handle. The best way to handle this is to create a separate boot
partition as the first partition, at the beginning of the drive that is big
enough to hold several boot images. 100 MB is more than enough.

Cliff King


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