Well, the *partition* is bootable, it's just that if the kernel's
somewhere past 1024, it won't be able to be found, and your LILO'll go
bang. I also suggest not moving the partition, 'cause weird things happen
when you change the order of 'em -- I speak, alas, from unfortunate
experiences. What you can do, however, is play games with LILO and
Windows' boot manager. Specifically:
- Install Red Hat to put the LILO stuff on the *partition*, not the MBR
- Make sure you create a boot floppy
- Boot into Linux with floppy
- dd if=/dev/hda1 of=linux.mbr bs=512 count=1
(This creates a copy of your LILO stuff, and puts it into file linux.mbr)
- Copy this linux.mbr file to a floppy (it's 512 bytes -- it'll fit ;-)
- boot into 2000
- copy the linux.mbr file to your c:\ (or somewhere else convenient)
- edit your c:\boot.ini file (it's hidden, but I think you can explicitly
edit it, eg. "edit c:\boot.ini", or else you'll need to:
attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini, and then attrib +r +s +h after saving the
file.)
- Add the line
c:\linux.mbr="Linux"
(Yes, the nomenclature is substantially different than the other
entries; that's okay, though. Don't mess with the others, as you could
nix your system's ability to boot W2K.)
Save the file, reboot, select Linux, and you should be styling. It's
worked for me under both NT and W2K, though I haven't used it in a couple
of months, so I may be somewhat rusty...
HTH,
-Ken
P.S. I believe that LILO 2.0, as well as GRUB (sp?), which is Mandrake's
boot loader, allow you to evade the 1024 cylinder problem. I don't like
grub for one particular reason: unlike LILO, it doesn't, to the best of my
knowledge, make a backup of the MBR when it replaces it. Bad. Hmmm.
Freshmeat may have me wrong, there. Looks like the current LILO rev is
21.6 (wups!), and "LILO is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a
hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13
interface." Wha? Can anyone translate that last bit, there?
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> At 08:22 PM 11/21/2000 -0500, Rob Yelle wrote:
>
> try moving your windows partition to your second partition. fdisk and/or
> disk druid can't make bootable partitions beyond the 1024 cyl. i think
> that's your problem. if you use partition magic you can easily do
> this...although i'd do it over night because 20 gigs is going to take a
> long time to move around. :-)
>
> i'm just a bit confused about the respect for your boss part....does he use
> the computer also? where do you work...can i get a machine like that?
>
> ~kurth
>
> >Thjis is my first solo try at dual boot install.
> >I would like to build a dual boot system at work.
> >I have taken a new job and have been bestowed with a pIII 700 with
> >196meg of memory and a 20 gig drive.
> >This is the standard desktop for the shop so please stop laughing.
> >They have graciously given me the go ahead to install linux as a second
> >OS.
> >I am going to use redhat 6.2 because I have a copy of it from my old
> >job.
> >
> >I have partitioned the drive into 2 (10 gig for the windows fat32
> >partition and 10gig for the linux)
> >I have run into a snag very early on in a custom install
> >when I get to the partitioning piece of the redhat install it says the
> >/boot partition is too big.
> >here are the parameters I'm setting
> >
> >set 10gig partition fat32 partition to /win2000
> >delete second 10 gig partition to free up space
> >then
> >set 50meg to /boot
> >set 200meg to <swap>
> >set 1500meg to / "root" (its big but I have plenty to spare)
> >set 4gig to /usr
> >
> >thats all I set and it complains that the boot disk partition is too
> >big.
> >I am not able to continue
> >
> >I do not want to blow away the windows (respect for my boss)
> >
> >Thanks
> >Rob from no.weare
> >
> >
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