[UCLA-LUG] cylinder limit

[James Lee]

Hi,

I am about to install Linux on my laptop so I could dual boot with my
windows.  But, I think I have a little problem.  When I go into fdisk
(during the installation process) to partition my drive, it says "The
number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1467.  This is larger than
1024.  It may cause problems blah blah....".  I know that it will most
likely give me that bad sign, "LI  ".  I am not sure if this BIOS will
be able to read anything higher than 1024.  I read that some recent BIOS
are, in fact, able to read above 1024 but... If I recall correctly, I
never had this problem when I had Linux installed on my desktop.  Any
suggestions?  Thanks.

-James