Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2000 06:49:13 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Booting to >8GB... |
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And "linear" to you lilo.conf, minus the quotes.
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Patrick J. Kobly wrote:
> Daniel, > > I have dealt with this on a number of occasions. I can confirm that GRUB will > _not_ solve this problem (it is, nonetheless an excellent bootloader, and I > would recommend it to anyone). Suggestions that will help are: > > 1) Having a small /boot partition under the 1023 cyl. limit. > 2) Adding a second, small, cheap HD, which only contains a /boot partition - > kernel, etc. Place your boot loader in the MBR of the first disk, tell it > that the kernel resides on the second disk, and tell the kernel that root is > on the first disk. Keep in mind that while the kernel must reside > completely below 1023, there is no such restriction on the root partition. > 3) Using a floppy disk with kernel on it. > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm having great difficulty finding a solution to my current problem: > > - I need to boot linux, installed >8GB into my harddisk. > > > > I know the current version 12 of LILO doesn't support this (even in linear > > mode). Werner? > > > > Is there any solution? Anyone know of other bootloaders? > > > > Help would be great > > - Dan > > __________________________ > > Daniel J Blueman > > Undergraduate - BSc Computing Science > > UMIST university - Manchester > > Direct line: 0161 933 3569 > > Mobile: 07775 583766 > > Email: daniel.j.blueman@stud.umist.ac.uk > > SMS: daniel.j.blueman@sms.genie.co.uk > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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