Hi James.
> 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.
The /boot solution also has the advantage that said partition can
default to being mounted read-only, thus ensuring that the actual
kernel image can't be over-written unless the superuser remounts the
said partition read-write. Such can be very reassuring.
Best wishes from Riley.
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