Re: Booting to >8GB...

From: Mads Martin Jørgensen (mmj@mmj.dk)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 06:58:27 EST


* Marcus Meissner <Marcus.Meissner@caldera.de> [000430 04:20]:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004291014210.1970-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX> you wrote:
> > Hi Andreas.
>
> > >> I'm having great difficulty finding a solution to my
> > >> current problem - I need to boot linux, installed >8GB
> > >> into my harddisk.
>
> Check out the GRUB at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
>
> We are shipping it as default with OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 and so far
> the only negative reactions have been the change from the familar lilo
> configuration to an new configfile.
>
> Otherwise it works wonderful and I had the very distinct pleasure of
> ripping the "if (... <1024) " checks from our installer ;)
On April 26. LILO 0.21.4.2 was announced. It now supports booting as
high as 2 TB disks. Look at:
http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/04/26/956756732.html

/Mads Martin

-- 
Mads Martin Jørgensen
Stud. Scient. Dat/Chem
E-Mail: mmj@mmj.dk
URL: http://mmj.dk

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Apr 30 2000 - 21:00:18 EST