On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:08:03 -0400
"Jerry Feldman"
I disagree with this. LILO should be able to handle large hard drives. I generally never use a /boot partition. It was added as a hack to get by the large disk restriction in LILO. Windows9x wants to be in the first primary
It depends on how old the computer is and the bios. You are fortunate to have newer hardware. The OP didn't say how old his computer is. Lilo has fixed the 1024 cylinder limit, as you say, but there is a new generation of super-huge capacity hard drives coming, and I'm already seeing people with new bioses complaining that it won't boot. A /dev/hda1 as /boot is foolproof, that is why I give the advice to use /dev/hda1 as /boot, it never fails. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation