[ale] 1024th cylinder

[Douglas Knudsen]

With the latest LILO out now, isn't this a moot point?

On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Gary Maltzen wrote:
> All you really need is for vmlinuz to be entirely below the 1024-cylinder
> (or 2**24 sector on newer systems) watermark. This is why you typically
> define a small (2-8MB) /boot partition onlow cylinders of the drive.
> 
> Once vmlinuz is loaded, instead of using the BIOS INT-13 disk handler, it
> uses it's internal disk handler which can access cylinders beyond 1024.
> 
> > When you place a bootable partition beneath the 1024th cylinder
> > of a hard drive, can you just place the /boot/vmlinuz kernel
> > there but leave you / partition above the 1024th cylinder if it
> > symlinks back to the /boot/vmlinuz image beneath the 1024th
> > cylinder?  Will the system still boot?
> 
> 
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