[H-GEN] Dual Booting WinNT/RH6.2 with a dash of SCSI

[Raymond Smith]

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This is the last post in this thread. I promise :-).

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, john rogers wrote:
> > So basically LILO seems unable to cope with being far from the start of
> > the SCSI disk? Does this sound right, or am I just going mad?       
> 
> no not at all, a LILO limitation, first partition should not go beyond
> 1024 cylinders .  this can be anywhere from 500Mb to 8Gb depending on
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> your BIOS/controller.

When I read this I had to let out a great 'D'Oh!'. Linux fdisk did
actually warn me about this but I paid it no attention because one of my
workmates had assured me 'ignore it, it doesn't matter' and we both
thought this was an old BIOS limitation rather than a LILO limitation.

I have since repartitioned with /boot within the 1024 boundary and all is
well.

The moral of the story is to always pay attention to warnings even when
they have not given you any problems before.

Cheers,

Raymond ``adding to the anti-hubristic tone of the week'' Smith

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raymond at humbug.org.au


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