[KLUG Members] Re: install problem

[Mike Williams]

>I quote from before installation section:
> "Another consideration when setting up the partitions. Many older BIOSes
>have the restriction that the boot partition cannot extend beyond the
>1024th cylinder on your first physical hard drive.  To overcome this
>limitation, simply make the first (bootable) partition so that it ends
>before the cylinder number 1023 (this makes this partition max
>approximately 512 MB in size, which is plenty for the "/" root partition).
>Once Linux boots, the BIOS restriction does not matter any more because
>Linux takes over the hardware management and it can access the
>partition(s) beyond the cylinder number 1023."

While there's no problem with that workaround, it's rarely necessary these days.  I've never seen that 1024 cylinder restriction in any but the oldest BIOS's.  Unless you're running on an original Socket 7 motherboard (original K6 or Pentium I) it's unlikely that you will have that problem.