Booting is done through the master boot record. The boot manager (LILO, GRUB, Windows) updates that information. The BIOS has nothing to do with a LILO boot. Windows9x will not boot if it is not the first primary unless you are using an advanced boot manager, such as boot magic. On 3 Sep 2002 at 12:09, zentara wrote:
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:08:03 -0400 "Jerry Feldman"
wrote: 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.
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