[ale] 1024th cylinder

[Gary Maltzen]

AFAIK, yes, the latest LILO does circumvent this issue

Note that following the generic procedure of placing /boot below the
1024-cylinder watermark, it doesn't matter *which* version of LILO you have.

(The original question didn't mention LILO)
(Given the question, would you assume the questioner has the latest LILO?)

> With the latest LILO out now, isn't this a moot point?
>
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Gary Maltzen wrote:
> > All you really need is for vmlinuz to be entirely below the
1024-cylinder
> > (or 2**24 sector on newer systems) watermark. This is why you typically
> > define a small (2-8MB) /boot partition onlow cylinders of the drive.
> >
> > Once vmlinuz is loaded, instead of using the BIOS INT-13 disk handler,
it
> > uses it's internal disk handler which can access cylinders beyond 1024.
> >
> > > When you place a bootable partition beneath the 1024th cylinder
> > > of a hard drive, can you just place the /boot/vmlinuz kernel
> > > there but leave you / partition above the 1024th cylinder if it
> > > symlinks back to the /boot/vmlinuz image beneath the 1024th
> > > cylinder?  Will the system still boot?


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