[lug] Large hard disks.

[Hugh Brown]

I believe there isn't much you can do except put a small boot partition
below cylinder 1023 or continue to boot with loadlin.

Hugh


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.