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Markku Tikkanen wrote:
> 
> Elem103 <elem103@smokey.aic.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm.. i did this about a year ago.  Hope i still remember how to do it ..
> > properly.  Anyway, i think this is what i did.
> 
> > I made sure that everything is in the first 1024 cylinders of the hard
> > drive, due to the use of old lilo.
> 
> Well, the partitions you have are basically the same way I'm having - with
> the exception that my first linux partition (/boot) is waaaay beyond the
> 1024 limit. Somewhere was said that newer lilo's can boot beyond the limit
> - but I didn't check that is it included in RH7...

** Yes the new lilo can boot above the 1024 line **BUT** it requires a bios
that recognizes certain calls - usually these bios are 1998 and newer.
Having the latest software isn't going to help if it needs a hardware feature.
> 
> BTW: how much is 1k cylinders in GB's? Or does it depend on HD in use?
> 8 Gigs?
> 
> > Well, i have not tested lilo much, so i can't really say.  Most of the time,
> > i just made sure that my boot partition is above 1024.
>                                              -----
> You mean below?
> 
> I think my problems are all because of having about 24 Gigs of Fat32
> -partitions in beginning of drive. And, I'm having the drive on HPT370
> conroller (KT7-RAID)
> 
> Perhaps I try not to get blood out of my nose (a finnish way of saying)
> and create a 16-meg /boot -partition at the beginning of the drive.
> 
> thanks for your concern, Elem.
> 
>         tiki
> 
> (ahh, the spring is coming! ...how about there? ;] )

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