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* Kernel HOWTO update?
@ 2001-07-05  3:15 Shawn Starr
  2001-07-05  3:27 ` Ben Ford
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From: Shawn Starr @ 2001-07-05  3:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bri; +Cc: linux-kernel


Section:
7.6 You forgot to run LILO, or system doesn't boot at all

You might want to update the following line:

"Using LILO with big drives (more than 1024 cylinders) can cause problems.
See the LILO mini-HOWTO or documentation for help on that."

This isn't true anymore unless your using an older version of LILO.

Shawn.


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* Re: Kernel HOWTO update?
  2001-07-05  3:15 Kernel HOWTO update? Shawn Starr
@ 2001-07-05  3:27 ` Ben Ford
  2001-07-05 11:09 ` Alan Cox
  2001-07-05 12:31 ` Anton Altaparmakov
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ben Ford @ 2001-07-05  3:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Shawn Starr; +Cc: bri, linux-kernel

Shawn Starr wrote:

>Section:
>7.6 You forgot to run LILO, or system doesn't boot at all
>
>You might want to update the following line:
>
>"Using LILO with big drives (more than 1024 cylinders) can cause problems.
>See the LILO mini-HOWTO or documentation for help on that."
>
>This isn't true anymore unless your using an older version of LILO.
>
Or an old hard drive.

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* Re: Kernel HOWTO update?
  2001-07-05  3:15 Kernel HOWTO update? Shawn Starr
  2001-07-05  3:27 ` Ben Ford
@ 2001-07-05 11:09 ` Alan Cox
  2001-07-05 12:31 ` Anton Altaparmakov
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2001-07-05 11:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Shawn Starr; +Cc: bri, linux-kernel

> "Using LILO with big drives (more than 1024 cylinders) can cause problems.
> See the LILO mini-HOWTO or documentation for help on that."
> 
> This isn't true anymore unless your using an older version of LILO.

For a large number of BIOSes out there it is still true


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* Re: Kernel HOWTO update?
  2001-07-05  3:15 Kernel HOWTO update? Shawn Starr
  2001-07-05  3:27 ` Ben Ford
  2001-07-05 11:09 ` Alan Cox
@ 2001-07-05 12:31 ` Anton Altaparmakov
  2001-07-05 13:00   ` Alan Cox
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Anton Altaparmakov @ 2001-07-05 12:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alan Cox; +Cc: Shawn Starr, bri, linux-kernel

At 12:09 05/07/01, Alan Cox wrote:
> > "Using LILO with big drives (more than 1024 cylinders) can cause problems.
> > See the LILO mini-HOWTO or documentation for help on that."
> >
> > This isn't true anymore unless your using an older version of LILO.
>
>For a large number of BIOSes out there it is still true

Is this still true if you use the lba32 option in lilo.conf?

Anton


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* Re: Kernel HOWTO update?
  2001-07-05 12:31 ` Anton Altaparmakov
@ 2001-07-05 13:00   ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2001-07-05 13:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Anton Altaparmakov; +Cc: Alan Cox, Shawn Starr, bri, linux-kernel

> > > This isn't true anymore unless your using an older version of LILO.
> >For a large number of BIOSes out there it is still true
> Is this still true if you use the lba32 option in lilo.conf?

lba32 requires bios support - which is common, and working bios support which
is slightly less common on older boxes

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