[lug] booting past 1024 on RH 7.1

[howeljs at grimoire.stortek.com]

I just installed RH7.1 on a 40G disk and had to put the lba32 line in. I 
also am using reiserfs, Gotta say I am very impressed with it!

John Karns wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, David Novotny said:
> 
> 
>>Howdy,
>>         I am attempting to boot to my LINUX partition located above 1024
>>cylinders.  I have RedHat 7.1 (2.4.2) and I keep getting an error stating
>>that LINUX can't boot past 1024.  I just upgraded from debian 2.2 (2.2.17)
>>and it allowed me to do just that (I needed the X support and 2.4 kernel
>>for my new video card). Is there a boot switch to allow booting from above
>>1024?  I can't seem to find it in my LINUX manuals but it does exist (at
>>least in debian 2.2).
>>
> 
> I'm not sure about RH7.1 in regards to what version of lilo it's using,
> but the newer versions I believe support large disks without having to do
> anything too special - at least that's what I've read.  Although I DL'd a
> more recent version, I usually put a small partition within the 1024 cyl
> boundary for /boot anyway.  They also gave it a face lift with nice menu
> interface.
> 
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  Jeff Howell
  EDS Unix Support

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