Re: tlug: LILO Vs. 1024 cylinders

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> Ain't no drag - papa's got a brand new disk!
> 
> OK, so James Brown said it was a brand new bag . . . :-)
> 
> As I type, I'm making an ext2fs on my new 6.4 GB IBM drive, and I have a
> question just to make sure I don't tripped up a little later.  When I
> ran fdisk on this drive to partition it, I was warned that the drive has
> over 1024 cylinders (yeah, it has over 12,000!) and that this could be a
> problem for LILO.  So what inquiring minds wanna know is:
> 
> 1) Why is this a problem for LILO?

LILO is lame.

> 2) What should I do about it?

Unless you need to boot a partition on that drive, or use it under
DOS/Windows, nothing.  If you do, go into your CMOS and put the drive in
LBA mode.  But, if you're just going to mount the whole thing under Linux,
it doesn't matter.

> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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