[ale] 1024th cylinder

[Dan Newcombe]

Usually you need to place the whole /boot directory on that bootable
partition.  LILO then passes a parm to the kernel in that tells it where
to find the / partition - regardless of where it is (it doesn't even need
to be on the booting hard drive).

You can then mount the /boot partition once the system is booted.

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, David S. Jackson wrote:

> When you place a bootable partition beneath the 1024th cylinder
> of a hard drive, can you just place the /boot/vmlinuz kernel
> there but leave you / partition above the 1024th cylinder if it
> symlinks back to the /boot/vmlinuz image beneath the 1024th
> cylinder?  Will the system still boot?
> 
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