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Hendric Stattmann <hendric.stattmann@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> Ich habe soeben Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 (Kernel 2.2.10) installiert.
> Leider funktioniert LILO nicht, da meine HD (IBM, 13.5 GB, IDE) 1650
> Zylinder hat. Die Linux-Partition beginnt bei Cyl. 1200 - das mag LILO nicht
> (Startzyl. > 1024), daher muss ich per Diskette booten.

The standard way to fix this is to create a small /boot partition at the
beginning of the disk. Only the kernel itself (the file /boot/vmlinuz) must
be below the 1024 cylinder boundary.

> Wer weiss, wie man LILO dazu bringt, Linux zu booten? (statt W98)?

The only way you can probably boot your system if you didn't do the
/boot trick is to use a boot floppy (like the one you created during
the installation). Once the kernel is loaded, the system will run just
fine.

It's not really a LILO limitation: it's a BIOS limitation. The only way
to fix it would be that LILO incorporates enough of the kernel that it
could access devices without any BIOS support: this is how MILO
on the Alpha works. But that would also mean the end of a generic, small,
and bugfree loader.