RH 7.1 LILO limitation?
 

Hi Everybody,
I have a 80GB HDD with partitions of 15GB, 20GB, 25GB and 20GB. I want to install WinXP on 15GB, Win2K on 20GB, RH Linux 7.1 on 20GB and use 25GB for data sharing.
I know that earlier versions of LILO had a limitation of having to be placed before the 1024th cylinder. I wanted to know if RH 7.1 LILO also suffers from the same limitation. If not, then I can go ahead with the plan I mentioned above. If LILO has this limitation still, can sombody tell me a way to implement the above plan. Any information or links will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

darkangel:jawa:

you can consider using loadlin.exe (which is ms-dos based loader).....i know this is a slow & bad
idea but with the plan u mentioned it does not looks that there is any other way.....u can't have more
than 8GB of linux partition from where you can boot (& that after you use lba) .....& you cant repartition it
cos you already have 4 partitions & bootable partition must be a primary partition.....

or may you can alter your plan slightly to increase data sharing partition or making it an extended
partition ,thus decreasing bootable partition of linux.....

or may be u will think about giving a look at HOWTOS on www.tldp.org ......also read /use/share/doc/lilo ....
if there is a way please share with us....best of luck

I know the latest version of lilo does not have this limit. I am not sure as to the version that ships with RH7.1, but I am guessing you should be fine.

Thank you all for replying. I am looking elsewhere for the solution too. And I will update this thread with my progress.

darkangel

Hi A-dummy,
Could you please elaborate on the option of altering my formatting scheme, please.

Thanks
darkangel

When I put RH7.1 on it bitched and gave me some redlined warnings about the 1024 cyl.limit but it worked.

sorry for replying late.....but as MasterC has said,new versions
of lilo support more than 1024 cylinders so you will not be
having any problem....

I heared that old LILO's had that limitation but new versions don't.

Thank you for your reply , A-dummy. I shall go ahead and install RH 7.1 now. I will let you guys know if something special comes up.


darkangel

RH 7.1 is pretty old now, if bandwidth isn't an issue... 7.3 is... well, another RedHat, and certainly has niftier toys.

The magic number by the way is Version 21.4 and greater. RH 7.0 shipped with a high enough one, 6.2 didn't. Even after the limit was broken, it took an explicit definition of lba_32 in lilo.conf for it to work, until the V 22.x series, which will grouch if they don't see it, but install fine anyway.

Cheers,

Finegan

I am looking at options for downloading RH 7.3 too. A lot of sites will let me do that on the net. But does anybody have any sites offering really good (>50kbps) download bandwidth. Any links will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

DA

The download links @ http://www.users.bigpond.com/rolyv/linux_downloads.htm are usally pretty good speed:)

http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/mirr....3-en/iso/i386

I just got ~350k/sec there.

Cool

1024 is BIOS limit, not LILO limit. Once LILO itself boots, it can
boot any OS over 80 GB range.