On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, David Pfitzner wrote: > > > > So why in the hell does lilo report cylinder 2312 which I'm fairly sure is > > in hda3 when I'm setting up hda2 which starts at 817? > > I seem to recall reading that you can have problems with > partitations where are not _entirely_ within 1023 cylinders, > because the kernel image could happen to be in that part > of the partition which is past the 1023 cylinder. > Exactly. And what I do to deal with the problem is create a very small partition for the /boot directory, where vmlinuz and the other LILO stuff resides. Mine is 4 mb but 2 mb is more than sufficient.
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