hello.. I am not sure who is in charge of this list now, but I am
leaving for Europe in a few weeks and would appreciate being removed
from the list so that my box does not fill up.\
thanks,
nathan
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Harald
Schwefel wrote:
> Dave Bresson wrote:
> >
> > Hmm...i'm guessing at the very least there's a beyond the 1024th cylinder
> > issue going on here (LILO can't boot if it's beyond the 1024th cylinder)
> >
> > dave
> >
> If that's the problem try the new version of lilo,
>
> ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo/
>
> hope it helps
> harald
>
>
> ===========================================================================
>
> The lilo-21.4.2 release fixes problems that have affected a few people:
>
> 1. The command line passed to the kernel was truncated at 78 characters
> if
> the LARGE_EBDA (Extended BIOS Data Area) compile-time option was used.
> (With today's big kernels, this was the default.)
>
> 2. If both 'linear' and 'compact' were specified, the second stage
> loader
> would encounter disk I/O error 0x40.
>
> Enhancements include:
>
> 3. The boot loader now understands octal. The kernel has always
> understood
> octal, decimal, and hexadecimal, but prior boot loaders only supported
> the
> last two.
>
> 4. All patches from the RedHat 6.2 distribution have been applied.
> This
> includes the RAID support.
>
> This version of LILO will boot from partitions beyond the 1024 cylinder
> limit. To do this it requires a post-1998 BIOS with support for the EDD
> packet call interface. Older systems may employ "soft" BIOS support for
> these calls with hard disk boot software such as EZ-DRIVE(tm) or
> MaxBlast(tm).
>
> --John Coffman <johninsd@san.rr.com>
>
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