Big bad Lilo [was RE: Dual boot question (W2K and Linux)]

[chy at genuity.com (Chuck Young)]

Derek, thanks for the reply.

In a perfect world, I wouldn't run Windoze, but I need it to run certain
compiled command executables on W2K in a dual/twin boot scenario with
VMware.  There are other app issues.

I would like to use Lilo to boot both, rather than NTLoader, but I really
could not care less.  I just don't want to need to boot off a floppy to get
to "high" cylinders or run into trouble with W2K during the install,
although overwriting the win MBR is no issue.

/dev/hda1 3 Mb booterup partition (and /boot)

/dev/hda2 20 GB NT5 ntfs partition

/dev/hda3 10 GB root partition (way up there)

I would love to install Lilo OVER the win 2K MBR and have it launch a root
partition way over the 1024 limit.  Is this possible?  I have not heard of
this

----------------------
Chuck Young
Internet Systems Engineer
E-Services Consulting
Genuity Solutions
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-discuss at Blu.Org [mailto:owner-discuss at Blu.Org]On Behalf Of
> Derek Atkins
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:49 AM
> To: Chuck Young
> Cc: Discuss at BLU
> Subject: Re: Dual boot question (W2K and Linux)
>
>
> I was under the impression that 'modern' lilo didn't have the 1024
> cylinder problem.  Also, note that "/boot" can be in hda2.  How
> big a W2k partition do you really want/need?  Do you really _WANT_
> more than 8G for winbloze? ;)
>
> -derek
>
> "Chuck Young" <chy at genuity.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm in a jam and would like to know if I can boot a W2K O/S
> from a small IDE
> > ext2fs root partition in (/dev/hda1).  I know it will work for
> Linux, but
> > not sure about W2K.  I think W2k will complain in the install
> about going in
> > /dev/hda2 without a windows partition in hda1.  All my web
> searches show win
> > at hda1 booting linux.  The object is to not have to use a
> floppy to boot
> > Linux with vmware on a large (30G) drive where the root
> partitoin is above
> > the translated 1024 cyl.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > ----------------------
> > Chuck Young
> > Internet Systems Engineer
> > E-Services Consulting
> > Genuity Solutions
> > -----------------------------
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