[UCLA-LUG] cylinder limit

[James Lee]

In fact, it is set to 1467.  I set lilo to use the linear mode, as Todd suggested but I got that "LI  " sign.  What does this mean?  Does this mean that
my linux partition has to start before 1024?  Right now, my swap goes from 1085 to 1101 and main one goes from 1102 to 1465.

I am willing to delete all the linux partition (I do not want to delete windows partition though) and start all over.  I have partition magic 4.0 in my
hand and will it be easier to use that instead of lilo?  If so, how would I go about doing it?

I have more questions but that's it for now!  Thanks.

-James

mike chan wrote:

> 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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