That's strange cause when I installed 7.1 it never mentioned anything
about grub. It just asked me if I wanted to use LILO.
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Mark
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> As far I as know because using LILO requires a boot partition LILO still
> suffers from the 1024 limit.
> GRUB which is the default in 7.1 does not reguire a boot partition and
> allows for Linux to be installed anywhere and on any size hd.
>
> Charles
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wienand Drenth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 2:36 AM
> Subject: [newbie] LILO Mandrake 7.1
>
>
> > With older versions of Mandrake and corresponding LILO, the Linux
> > partition had somehow to start before cylinder 1023 (roughly speaking).
> > However, for LILO version 21.4.4 this barrier seems broken.
> > Question: does Mandrake 7.1 come with a LILO that supports placement of
> > the boot loader after cylinder 1024? I.e. can one use large partitions.
> > And does anyone have any experience with it?
> >
> > Thanks for any insight!
> >
> > Wienand Drenth
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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