I saw this long back. Never tried it but it might be worth looking into:
nuni is a boot loader for Linux that uses the ext2 file system and IDE
drives. It avoids BIOS limitations by not using the BIOS, which eliminates
relevance of cylinder 1024/disk geometry. It can boot Linux from any
location up to 137gb, on any IDE drive, and it's not confused by presence of
both IDE and SCSI drives.
Download: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
<http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/948964753/> (1314 hits)
Alternate Download: http://deepblue.dyndns.org/bootloader.html
<http://apps.freshmeat.net/altdownload/948964753/> (198 hits)
Homepage: http://www.linuxforum.com/plug/articles/nuni.html
<http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/948964753/> (1307 hits)
> Well linux & for that matter any OS will have a problem booting off from a
> partition which is beyond the 1024 cylinder limit.
>
> I am running linux on a 20GB HDD & on a 27GB HDD at a friends place
> without
> any problems.
>
> The trick is to make a small /boot bootable partition well within the 1024
> cylinder limit. After that you can crate your / or /usr etc partitions
> anywhere on the disk.
>
> - Ashish
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nitin Rastogi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 10:24 AM
> Subject: [linux-delhi] Hard Disk capacity...
>
>
> > Hi!!
> > Is there a limit as to what capacity of hard disk u can install
> > linux.......one of my friends was installing Linux on a 17GB HDD and he
>
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