[techtalk] LILO >1024 cylinders?

jennyw jennyw at dangerousideas.com
Thu Aug 10 18:12:32 EST 2000


Thanks, I'll give that a try. Any pointers as to how to get this?

I'm still kind of new to Linux/Debian ... the way I know to get files is to
use apt-get.  When we tried this for LILO, it didn't get the latest.

Thanks!

Jen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <malcolm at commsecure.com.au>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] LILO >1024 cylinders?

The latest LILO versions (version 21.3 and later) can do this, using the
lba32 option in lilo.conf (or -L on the command line). Your BIOS needs
to be fairly recent to allow this to work, but apprently most BIOS chips
that are 1998 or later will suffice.

Apparently, the Potato version of Debian (frozen version) contains LILO
21.4, so you can even get a debian package for it. :-)

Cheers,
Malcolm







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