From: STeve Andre' (andres_at_pilot.msu.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 13 1999 - 13:27:13 EDT
OK, that makes sense. An artifact of the BIOS and how the number
of bits reserved for the cylinder count yet again nips us in the
rear. Thanks for that--it explains a problem I recently had.
STeve Andre'
andres_at_pilot.msu.edu
At 08:13 AM 6/13/99 -0400, Lee Hetherington wrote:
>Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>> You can only boot from the first 1 GB of the drive. I'm not sure if
>> that's a Lilo limitation or something more inherent. Basically you
>> should make your first two partitions (the boot partitions for Warp
>> and Linux) fit in the first 1 GB. Put the rest of your data into
>> additional partitions.
>
>This is very definitely not true. I have a 6.4GB drive with Linux on the
last
>1.5GB. It all comes down to 1024 cylinders, not GB.
>
>--Lee Hetherington
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