On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:58 -0400, - - s r b - - wrote: ... > From that webpage is the following quote... does this still apply to > Fedora Core 2 with GRUB? > > "The location of the /boot partition on the hard drive is critical so > that you don't get screwed by the infamous BIOS 1024 cylinder limit > <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2>. The BIOS > of > older systems can't access data beyond cylinder 1024, which is ~8.5 > GB. > A simple way to avoid the BIOS 1024 limit is to create /boot within > the > first 1024 cylinders (~8.5 GB) of the hard drive." > > The reason I ask is because I was intending to install it AFTER a 4GB > and 8GB partition... which puts it past the 12GB mark. I'm still in the habit of creating a /boot within the 1024 limit, but IIRC GRUB and modern versions of LILO no longer have that limitation. Phil
