[TriLUG] Re: partitioning: primary or logical

James Manning trilug at sublogic.com
Thu May 16 13:43:00 EDT 2002


[M. Mueller]
> Question: Would a late model grub or lilo used with an old (can't boot from 
> partition above cylinder 1024) BIOS be able to boot from cylinders above 1024?

nope - if the BIOS doesn't support LBA mode, the bootloader can't do
a whole lot to work around that since it'll be stuck in the geometry
(s/h/c) world - you can scan down to the lba32 option in lilo.conf(5)
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