Re: Boot Partition

If you have fairly new hardware you may be able to avoid the 1024
limitation by installing the newest lilo. The lilo manual will tell you
what to put in your lilo.conf. It really is a stupid limitation,
especially after all these years.

Otherwise, when you are installing, just make a small partition (8 mb or
something) before the 1024 boundary, and set its mount point to "/boot".
Make sure that you install your kernel images in /boot (*not* in root
directory), so that lilo will be able to access them via the BIOS.

        -Adam

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Tanner, Robby wrote:

> At one point I thought I had seen a document on setting up a
> separate partition ("/boot") just for kernel images. Can someone direct me
> to that? I would like to set one up. My initial Linux install was just
> over the 1024 limit and I have to boot from floppy which is veeerrrrryyyy
> slooooooooooooooooowwwwww. I'll probably have to repartition the drive and
> do a reinstall. That's fine, I just am not to sure how to continue
> after/during that phase to set up /boot.
> Any help appreciated.
>
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