Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On the other hand, Linux doesn't need the BIOS information at all (I
> have a few machines where the BIOS has no idea I've even got IDE drives,
> but Linux knows). If you're only running Linux you're ok.
Not quite. If you're using LILO to boot off the drive, /boot/vmlinuz
has to be in a part of the disk that the BIOS sees. The easiest way
to do this is to make a small /boot partition at the start of the drive.
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