On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:27, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 months ago, and now I'm reading
> > up trying to figure out how to use it. I've look at the
> > documentation on the Mandrake page, the Instillation
> > How-To, the Win95+Linux How- To, and a few others. Some of
> > them mention that with some distributions of Linux, on some
> > computers, bootable partitions must completely reside below
> > the 1024th cylinder.
> >
> > How do I know if I need to have my Linux boot partition
> > below the 1024th cylinder when partitioning my drive? I
> > bought Partition Magic to help with the partitioning.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jake
>
> Jake....yes with 7.0 you do need to make sure that the
> partition that contains the kernal ends before the 1024th
> cylinder of your drive. This is of no concern if the drive
> you're using is 8 megs or less in size as 8 megs correlates
Don't you mean 8 gigs?
> to 1023 cylinders. But if the drive is greater than 8 megs
> then the easiest way to assure the kernal isn't in a
> partition that crosses the 1024 cylinder boundary is to
> create a small (mine are 8 megs) partition first and during
> installation assign that one the mount point /boot.
If you upgrade LILO to the latest version, use GRUB, or simply use Mandrake
7.2, then you will have no 1024 cylinder problem.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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