Re: Booting to >8GB...

From: Michel Catudal (bbcat@linuxstart.com)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 23:04:16 EST


Daniel J Blueman <daniel.j.blueman@stud.umist.ac.uk> wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm having great difficulty finding a solution to my current problem:
> - I need to boot linux, installed >8GB into my harddisk.
>
>I know the current version 12 of LILO doesn't support this (even in linear
>mode). Werner?
>
>Is there any solution? Anyone know of other bootloaders?

I read somewhere that there was a new Lilo that would do this.
You'll have to look as I haven't checked this out.

You should be able to use a floppy to boot to the partition.
You can also shrink one of the other partition and put a 15M
boot partition below the 1024 cylinder.

Vous en avez plein l'casse du plantage de Ti-Mou?
alors il est temps d'essayer Linux
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat
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