And "linear" to you lilo.conf, minus the quotes.
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Patrick J. Kobly wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> I have dealt with this on a number of occasions. I can confirm that GRUB will
> _not_ solve this problem (it is, nonetheless an excellent bootloader, and I
> would recommend it to anyone). Suggestions that will help are:
>
> 1) Having a small /boot partition under the 1023 cyl. limit.
> 2) Adding a second, small, cheap HD, which only contains a /boot partition -
> kernel, etc. Place your boot loader in the MBR of the first disk, tell it
> that the kernel resides on the second disk, and tell the kernel that root is
> on the first disk. Keep in mind that while the kernel must reside
> completely below 1023, there is no such restriction on the root partition.
> 3) Using a floppy disk with kernel on it.
>
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Help would be great
> > - Dan
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