[ltp] GRUB Geom Error

Aaron Mulder linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:50:21 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Sebastian Sch?fer wrote:
> AFAIK it should be possible to boot a kernel after the 1024'th cylinder
> with recent versions of LILO. I think this was made possible at the same
> time as some early version of 2.4 was released. But as I use GRUB I'm
> not so sure about that. GRUB supports doing that for sure (I depend on
> it myself)

	I thought the same myself but someone here at the office had a
problem with SuSE 9.0 and 1024 cylinders (with Grub).  Perhaps the
hardware or BIOS also has some bearing on it?

Aaron