On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:41:26AM +0000, Patrick Meidl wrote: > > > I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th > > > cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution > > > might be to have these partitions: > > > > With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems > > booting Linux from the last 500mb of a 1.6gb drive; the 1024 limit > > only takes you to 528mb or so. I boot NT 2gb into a 6gb drive; no > > problem. > > > > I have never encountered any 1024 cylinder problem with Linux. I wish > > the documentation would not keep spreading these ideas. > > this sounds promising (I hate limitations). but: does anybody know if > the NCR 53C810 SCSI BIOS on an ASUS PCI/I-486P3G motherboard uses LBA? > I couldn't find out from BIOS setup and motherboard manual.
Perhaps I am wrong, but I think that this is only an IDE limitation, not a SCSI one. The main problem is the drive types in the BIOS setup, and these are never entered for SCSI drives. > by the way: anybody interested in a "loadlin vs. lilo for win95+linux > dual boot" discussion? (I am new to the list so please skip this if you > are having this every 3 months ... pointers to resources on that topic > on the web are also welcome). It is not too hard to hose your system when initially configuring LILO. Once it's installed it is safe enough. I do not know of any other advantages of LOADLIN. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null