> LILO may be able to break the 1024 cylinder barrier, but it _cannot_ break
> the 8G barrier,. This is bacause of how lilo stores the sector address. The
> address is only 24bits + drive specifier (8bits, 1 used as LINEAR address
> identifier)+ sector count (8 bits).
Yah, the LILO 1st stage loader translates the 'linear' addresses into
CHS numbers according th the bios's current CHS geometry before making
the call to the bios.
> I am already looking into this and maybe in two weeks I will have it ready.
> (I already rewrote the primary loader to use both the old and the new int13
> interface). In the current state, I aim at being able to address sector
> using 32bits (the Int13 extensios alllow upto 64bits), which would push the
> barrier to 2TB.
Have you looked into the version at:
ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo/
That's a modified lilo which uses int13 extensions.
Neil.
