[Tfug] LILO

Brian Murphy murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu
Tue May 20 01:37:00 MST 2008


Quoting Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net>:
> On Tue May 20, 2008 at 01:02:50AM -0700, Brian Murphy wrote:
>> I don't see where you posted the real error message but even
>> without seeing it the problem is you're over the 1024 BIOS
>> cylinder limit.
>
> Does modern hardware still have problems with the 1024 BIOS
> cylinder limit?


Modern hardware and BIOSes should support LBA which fixes the cylinder
limit problem.  But we all know how reliable "should" is.

Brian


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