On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, at 1:48pm, Greg Kettmann wrote: > I assumed I'd install RH 7.2 and LILO first ...
I recommend installing Microsoft OSes first. Not only are Microsoft's installers anti-social in that they tend to assume they can do whatever they want to a system, I have found they sometimes crash completely if they even *see* another OS on the system. (This applies even to older MS OSes which encounter newer versions of MS OSes, BTW -- i.e., it isn't malice, just incredibly bad programming.) > ... that way I can keep below the cylinder limit. I *think* Red Hat Linux 7.2's LILO includes the "lba32" feature, which eliminates the INT13 1024-cylinder limit. If you want to play safe anyway, just leave some unpartitioned space below the cylinder 1023 when you do the Windows install, and tell Red Hat's installer to use that space as the boot partition. > I assume that XP will not play nice and will try to remove the boot record > ... In general, I recommend avoiding the "feature" of LILO which lets you install it in the MBR. That behavior is completely non-standard, and anyone using it should expect to get burned. The MBR is not supposed to contain an OS-specific boot loader. Linux is broken here. Install LILO into the boot sector of your boot partition, the way the PC was intended to work. If you need more advanced boot capabilities (such as menu-driven boot-time OS selection), use a more advanced boot loader. GRUB consistantly gets recommendations, and is GPL. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
