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by **Thomas Stuart Manle** » Sun, 05 Jan 1997 04:00:00

I'm new to Linux so I picked up O'Reilly & Associates "Running Linux" to
help me get started. In this book it stated that the Linux root partition
cannot be placed beyond cluster 1024 if you expect to boot from it using
LILO. I just bought a new computer with a WD 3.2GB drive and I am trying
to determine the best way to setup my Win95, Linux native, and Linux swap
partitions. This book is somewhat out-of-date (it references to kernel
version 1.1.52) and I was wondering if this is still true for current
stable kernel releases? I am currently running Red Hat Linux 4.0
commercial distribution.

Thanks,

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Thomas Stuart Manley =^.^=

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by **Rod Smi** » Mon, 06 Jan 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>I'm new to Linux so I picked up O'Reilly & Associates "Running Linux" to
>help me get started. In this book it stated that the Linux root partition
>cannot be placed beyond cluster 1024 if you expect to boot from it using
>LILO.

Actually, it's CYLINDER 1024, not cluster.

Quote:>I just bought a new computer with a WD 3.2GB drive and I am trying
>to determine the best way to setup my Win95, Linux native, and Linux swap
>partitions. This book is somewhat out-of-date (it references to kernel
>version 1.1.52) and I was wondering if this is still true for current
>stable kernel releases? I am currently running Red Hat Linux 4.0
>commercial distribution.

It's true of all OSes on Intel-based PCs with the usual BIOSes, because
it's a BIOS limitation, and the BIOS must be used to boot the system.
Note that this may or may not be a problem depending upon how your BIOS
handles the 3.2GB drive -- it may, for instance, do CHS ("Cylinder-Head-
Sector") geometry re-mapping, which is sometimes erroneously referred to
as "LBA mode." Modern versions of LILO and Linux should detect this and
integrate with it seamlessly, though I do still occasionally see problem
reports on this issue, in which case there's a HOWTO on the subject.

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Placing Linux root partition beyond cluster 1024?

Placing Linux root partition beyond cluster 1024?

Placing Linux root partition beyond cluster 1024?