Still LILO and 01 01 01?

Leo L. Lam lll at ee.washington.edu
Tue Sep 28 11:30:43 PDT 1999


Ok...thanks...

But what if I do not have the /boot as a separate partition??  Or how can I
force it in the first 1024 cylinders?

Leo
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Leo L. Lam
MEMS/Focused Ion Beam Micromachining
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
USA
Tel:  (206) 221 5167  fax:  (206) 543 3842
----- Original Message -----
From: BRAD JOHNSON <brad.johnson at ryobi.com>
To: UW Linux Group <linux at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:23 AM
Subject: RE: Still LILO and 01 01 01?


> Your /boot must be below the 1024th cylinder.  Other wise, your kernel
> _will_ be above 1024.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leo L. Lam [mailto:lll at ee.washington.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:13 PM
> To: UW Linux Group
> Subject: Still LILO and 01 01 01?
>
>
> Thanks everyone.  However, if I use RPM to rpm the new kernel, how can I
> 'dictate' that it goes to the first 1024 cylinders?
>
> Thanks again...
>
> Leo
> ***********************************************************************
> Leo L. Lam
> MEMS/Focused Ion Beam Micromachining
> Department of Electrical Engineering
> University of Washington
> Seattle, Washington
> USA
> Tel:  (206) 221 5167  fax:  (206) 543 3842
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cliff <cliffo at u.washington.edu>
> To: UW Linux Group <linux at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 1:14 PM
> Subject: Re: LILO and 01 01 01?
>
>
> > If I recall, I had that problem when I tried to boot vmlinuz beyond the
> > 1024'th cylinder.  Things get interesting with large hard drives.  I set
> > up a small partition (about 30 megs) at the beginning of the drive for
> > /boot to avoid that problem...
> >
> > Cliff
> >
> >
>
>




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