It is hard to say. I have two 10G hard drives. One is Maxtor UDMA-2 as
slave on one computer with Intel Triton Chip(Master hard drive Maxtor
6.4G), the other is Western Digital UDMA-4 Hard drive as Master and
SamSung 4.3 GB UDMA-2 as slave with SIS 5513 IDE Chipset. In first
scenerio I was able to install Mandrake 6.0, and on sceond scenrio it
always hung-up when I tried to FDISK, but I was able to install Redhat
6.0 to it.
However, LILO use some BIOS calls and it is absolutely limited to first
1024 cylinder. So you have to make sure you create a small partition
within first 1024 cylinder and mount it as /boot. I only use one
cylinder (8MB) for this purpose. Besides, In FDISK, you have to use "a"
(no quote) to make it bootable.
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> > Is there a way to get LILO to install on a big drive ( with more than
> > 1024 cyl . ) I believe that's why it won't install on my system .
> >
> Well, I've never done it before, but I'm told that RedHat 6.0 will install on a
> large drive (13 gig IDE) without having to use a boot floppy, and since
> Mandrake is based heavily on RedHat, it should work for you.
>
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