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Author: George Toft
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Subject: Linux and 80GB hdds; how large can hda1 be and still boot off hda2?
lilo-21.7.5-21

The motherboard is from 2000, I think.

George


Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> Booting with Grub or Lilo? I thought the 1024 cylinder limit was in older
> versions of Lilo/Older MB Bioses that couldn't see a drive that large?
>
> > I just installed a 120GB drive today. As long as your boot partition is
> > within the forst 1024 cylinders, you're OK.
> >
> > Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda8            103999800  31121960  67594868  32% /
> > /dev/hda5                15493      3426     11267  24% /boot
> > /dev/hda7             10325748    749704   9051524   8% /var

>
> > ? Linux and 80GB hdds; how large can hda1 be and still boot off hda2?
> > ?
> > ? I want to order a new 80gig hdrive for my new Epox KT333 mobo.
> > ? Usually I dual boot, so is there a problem if RH8 or Debian uses the last
> > ? 20GB of the hdd?
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