Can Linux boot pass the 1024 cylinder ?

[jose]

Hi everyone,

I've always used a dual boot scsi system. I always set my win partition to 8 gigs which is just below the 1024 cylinder on my hard drive.
I use System Comander to dual boot both OS's. I set lilo to boot from the /boot partition which is about 100MB and it is within the 1024 cylinder .

I never tried to boot past the primary 8gig partition (win), so is this still a limit ? I user RH9.0 & RH Ent. 3.0 .

Thanks for the info

Regards,
Jose

 

[CTho9305]

Yes. It's worked fine for ages... linux programmers just don't like to keep their documentation up to date .

 

[Nothinman]

That problem hasn't been around for years, as long as your BIOS supports it.

Yes. It's worked fine for ages... linux programmers just don't like to keep their documentation up to date .

LILO and GRUB both have docs that say they support LBA for booting past 1024 cylinders, where are you looking?

 

[jose]

Thanks for the info.

Since I use system commander dlx, it was in their docs that referenced the 1024 limitation.

I always used system commander because I used to boot win98se, win2k, SCO, & Linux .
Also sys cmd provided some partition utilities that were handy when Partition Magic failed to deal w/ partition errors.

Regards,
Jose