Daniel,
I have dealt with this on a number of occasions. I can confirm that GRUB will
_not_ solve this problem (it is, nonetheless an excellent bootloader, and I
would recommend it to anyone). Suggestions that will help are:
1) Having a small /boot partition under the 1023 cyl. limit.
2) Adding a second, small, cheap HD, which only contains a /boot partition -
kernel, etc. Place your boot loader in the MBR of the first disk, tell it
that the kernel resides on the second disk, and tell the kernel that root is
on the first disk. Keep in mind that while the kernel must reside
completely below 1023, there is no such restriction on the root partition.
3) Using a floppy disk with kernel on it.
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having great difficulty finding a solution to my current problem:
> - I need to boot linux, installed >8GB into my harddisk.
>
> I know the current version 12 of LILO doesn't support this (even in linear
> mode). Werner?
>
> Is there any solution? Anyone know of other bootloaders?
>
> Help would be great
> - Dan
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