Paul Christenson writes: >On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote: > >> I am in the process of building a debian machine for my office >> from surplus parts. >> Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I >> make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be >> pretty sure that I can at least boot the thing with a floppy? > >You will be able to boot from floppy. No problem. > >However, the way I recommend is NOT to use lilo, but loadlin. Create a >small (a few meg) DOS partition as the first partition, and have the >AUTOEXEC.BAT simply run loadlin.
This is in this context complete rubbish. You only have to ensure that you turn off any translation (put in the true sector/head values) and that the boot partition lies < 1023 cylinders. After booting linux doesn't need the BIOS anymore. David -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
