Still LILO and 01 01 01?

vladimir p marchuk marchuk at u.washington.edu
Thu Sep 30 09:44:10 PDT 1999


then try using loadlin instead. This way you first go into dos, then run
loadlin vmlinuz .... something, something, just read the readme file.

Walter

P.S.
You dont have to repartition.

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Leo L. Lam wrote:

> 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
> ***********************************************************************
> 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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