On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Gregory J. Feig wrote: > Stephen, Steve, Richard, et al, > > That URL for LILO reference at sourceforge says that it is possible > for the LILO Boot to be loaded into a small partition below the > 1024 cylinder/approximate 500Mbyte limit, with the rest of the Linux > distribution(s) loaded above that limit.... > > It says that that small Boot Partition needs: > > 1.1 /boot/vmlinuz > > 2.2 various "lilo" files: /boot/*.b > > So, now, back to my questions....how much room will VMLINUZ and these > /BOOT/*.B files require....could you please check their size on your > system(s) and give me an estimate of how large a partition I need to > whack out of one of my existing partitions which are under the 1024 > cylinder limit...???
Well... I have a /boot that's 4.9MB, but that's for two kernels. Here's the complete listing of what's in my /boot directory: [steve@wizard /boot]$ ll total 4988 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 7 23:30 System.map -> System.map-2.2.19-6.2.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 202709 Mar 7 2000 System.map-2.2.14-5.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204069 Apr 9 2001 System.map-2.2.19-6.2.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 3 2001 boot.0300 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Feb 2 2000 boot.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Feb 2 2000 chain.b lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 30 14:39 kernel.h -> kernel.h-2.2.19 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 237 Jun 30 14:46 kernel.h-2.2.19 -rw------- 1 root root 36352 Jul 14 09:47 map lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jun 30 13:54 module-info -> module-info-2.2.19-6.2.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Mar 7 2000 module-info-2.2.14-5.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Apr 9 2001 module-info-2.2.19-6.2.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 620 Feb 2 2000 os2_d.b -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1638964 Mar 7 2000 vmlinux-2.2.14-5.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1655711 Apr 9 2001 vmlinux-2.2.19-6.2.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 30 13:54 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.2.19-6.2.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640052 Mar 7 2000 vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640846 Apr 9 2001 vmlinuz-2.2.19-6.2.1 > Then, according to you, and the sourceforge LILO reference, I can > point my IBM Boot Manager at the LILO on that small BootPartition and > ...voila..!!!!....should be able to use THAT lilo to boot either of > the Linux distros on their "upper" partitions... The latest versions of LILO don't even need to have the boot partition below the 1024 cyl limit, but it's probably safest to do it that way. - Steve
