[ale] LILO boot

[Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu (Dan Newcombe)]

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I have installed RH 6.1 on many machines and have found that if the kernel
> that boots does not reside under the 1024th cylinder then the system fails
> to boot. What I've done is create a /boot at 10mgs and place all boot stuff
> there and
> then partition the rest of the HDD.  Is this the correct way?

Yup.  This is because of the limitations of the BIOS.  With LBA mapping
you could possibly get around this, but a /boot partition works just as
well.