[lug] Large hard disks.

[Ralf Mattes]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, 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.

I just installed a 18GB drive in my laptop and encountered a  similar problems.
Adding the 'linear' option to /etc/lilo.conf solved the problem.
Hope this helps ...

 Ralf
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