From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk@1tree.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Partitioning a drive with windows already on it?
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:27:52 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201020822001.20884-100000@lbear> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0201022047430.2421-100000@data.home>
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Geoff Shang wrote:
> This warning is to do with the fact that your boot image for linux has to
> be on cylinder 1023 or lower, as the BIOS can only read the first 1024
> cylinders of the drive.
This is wrong. It continues to be a widely held incorrect belief and all
explanations of why are built on old information that hasn't been the case
since arround 1996. But nobody should feel bad. Even though MSDOS 4
changed rules on making a disk bootable there are people who still believe
that there must be a reserved space for the io.sys file.
The real rule is that if you have winblows working with the drive you can
use it in linux without looking back. Just put lba32=on in your lilo.conf
file.
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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
One of the most overlooked advantages to computers is... If they do
foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
-- Joe Martin
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