FDISK weirdness

[Dan Murphy]

At 01:41 PM 10/25/95 -0400, linux-sig at bcs.org wrote:

>Use Linux fdisk, and put DOS below 1024 cylinders.  Linux and Linux swap
>go above the limit.  After you install both OSs and mount the DOS
>partition, move /boot onto the DOS partition and make /boot a symlink to
>the new place (suggestion: /dos/linux/boot).  Run lilo now, and it will
>work because /boot is below the 1024 cyl barrier.
>
>

Thanks, finally got things going.

It looks like you don't have to move /boot to the DOS partition if you use the "linear" bootparm in lilo.conf.

Boy, EIDE is a hack, isn't it?


Dan Murphy                 murph at vmark.com
Vmark Software             74260.3322 at compuserve.com
Westboro, MA