[UCLA-LUG] cylinder limit

[mike chan]

this is actually just a lilo problem... the new hard drives genearlly don't have that many cylinders... so you might not run into that problem...

what you can do is just create a small boot partition at the front of your hard drive, and put the linux boot images there and point lilo there also..

mike

At 03:12 PM 2/23/00 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>
>
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