What version of Linux supports Hard-Drives bigger than 8,4 GB without having to upgrade LILO?

[ManDark]

Hi,

What version of Linux, don't care what distro, supports my Hard-Drive of 14,3 GB? I can install Linux (Redhat 6.2), but the version of LILO is too old, and I am not experienced enough yet, to be able to upgrade the LILO version, so what version DOES support it?

Thx,

ManDark

 

[bubba]

They all support that size of drive. Just make sure that your boot section is before the 8 GB mark. To do this you can just make a 20 MB /boot partition at the beginning of the drive.

 

[ManDark]

I want my windows to run next to it, so that I can boot either windows or linux, so messing with fdisk or something needs a clean install?

 

[Tiger]

How big are your windows partitions?
If they're under the 8.4 Gig mark all you have to do is use disk druid and take note of where your last Dos/Vfat partition ends and start the Linux install there.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I think Mandrake 7.1 & 7.2 have the updated LILO built-in and can boot past 8GB into the HD.

-SUO

 

[Damaged]

Or use GRUB instead of LILO as it does not have the limitation.

 

[crimsun]

ManDark, all versions of Linux newer than 2.0.35 support hard drives larger than 8.4 GB.

All versions of Red Hat newer than 5.0 support hard drives larger than 8.4 GB (though 5.0 and 5.1 need patches).

In my experience on some really strange hardware I've found that GRUB doesn't pass parameters correctly to the kernel, so I've relied on LILO 21.6, which does not have the 1024th cylinder or 8.4 GB-barrier, to boot my computer.

As long as you install a /boot partition (10 MB is more than sufficient) in the first 1024th cylinder, you should be fine no matter what version of whatever distribution you use (even the first version of Slackware will work!).

Newer distributions such as Mandrake 7.2 and Red Hat 7.0 do not exhibit this limitation.

 

[jtshaw]

I use Slackware 7.1 and as long as you put lba32 at the begining of the lilo.conf file (which it should do for you) it will not only support 8gig+ drives (like all recent linux's can) but it will allow booting off of anywhere in the drive. Linux works just fine on my two 34.6 gig drives.