Re: Boot issue...

[Martin Stricker <shugal gmx de>]

"David W. Jablonski" wrote:
> > ...is the kernel below the 1024 cylinder mark, or has "lba32"
> > been added?
> >
> 
> I've always been slightly confused on the 1024 cylinder issue.  Is
> that per hd?  If it is per hd then yes the kernel would be under the
> limit.

It's per hd. Reason: Due to tradition the BIOS is only able to access
the first 1024 cylinders of every harddisk. LiLo depends on BIOS calls
to load the kernel. The kernel, of course, doesn't have this
restriction. Newer mainboards have a BIOS which can access the complete
hd, but with different calls for backwards compatibility. The new calls
are known as LBA32 mode. Adding "lba32" to lilo.conf tells LiLo to use
the LBA32 calls instead of the old ones.

Hope that clears things for you.

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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