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> I understand that Linux's root partition has to boot from under the 1024 > cylinder limit. Knowing this, it seems as though I'll have to > repartition my harddrive. Does DOS/Windows have to boot under the 1024 > limit also, or can I put all of my DOS stuff on the other half of my IDE > drive, i.e. on the second 500 mg partition if my drive is split in two? > > I'd like to know how other Linux users make their large IDE drives > co-exist with Windows and LInux. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Anything that boots must be under the 1024 limit. Put your DOS partition there, then move /boot to /dos/linux/boot. (assume /dos is C: drive) Now make /boot a link to /dos/linux/boot. Put your kernel images there too, or maybe in /dos/linux/kernels - specify it in /etc/lilo.conf. Linux will boot from the DOS partition, but mount the Linux ext2 partition as the root. I always make these changes during the install so that I do not have to boot from a floppy twice or run lilo by hand. Careful, you will need a Linux boot floppy if you defrag your DOS partition because the kernel gets moved.
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