[LUG] Lilo

[Robert Callaghan <norm at termisoc.org>]

Should anyone be interested, I have just read on slashdot
(www.slashdot.org (for the few who may not know)) that the new version of
lilo has overcome the 1024 cylinder limit with regards to booting.

According to what I read it now supports disks of upto 2Tb!!!
This comes from freshmeat:
--
Lilo is a Boot loader for Linux and other operating systems. Lilo is
responsible for
   loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and
giving it control of the
   system. It can also be used to boot many other operating sysetms,
including the BSD
   variants, DOS, and OS/2. The Lilo distribution includes full source,
documentation and
   support files, but no pre-compiled binaries. 

   Changes: The 1024-cylinder limit has been removed by a patch that uses
the EDD bios
   extensions and supports up to 2 TB disks. 

   Urgency: low 
--

Appoliges for bad format. i can't be bothered to tidty it all up.  :-)


R

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