Re: Booting to >8GB...

From: James R Bruce (bruce+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 20:06:26 EST


The newest lilo supports LBA mode. You can bootstrap by installing on a
small hd, and then copy everything once you get the newer lilo. There
is also the aforementioned grub, and the classic solution of mounting
/boot in a 10-50MB partition at the beginning of the large drive.

 - Jim Bruce

> % /sbin/lilo -v
> LILO version 21.4-2, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman

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