Goldwyn,
you may try using disk manager to gain access above 8 GB,
thats if u have a seagate or samsung hdd,
u need to install some overlay drivers which are loaded
at boot up, after which lilo takes over :)
i have a western digital drive of 10GB, which i run
without any probs, using ez-drive, a discwizard equivalent
for western digital drives,
hth,
regards,
Anil
i live at : http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~gracias
[philip note the "http://"; ;)]
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a friend who has a P-2000 MMX with an old BIOS. the BIOS detects only
> 8GB HDD and is not re-programmable. We made an 8000MB partition and
> installed Winduhs. And started installing Linux and the installation
> detected the whole 40 GB HDD. We continued installation by trying ot make a
> root partition of 2.5 GB, din't allow at all because of 1024 prob. of LILO.
> So made a 20MB /boot and the rest of the partitions to proceed. Linux works
> fine(even beyond 8GB), but windows is jacked. The blue bar just refuses to
> move ahead when we boot in winduhs saying "Warning: Logical drives exist
> beyond Z".
>
> Formatted the partition /dev/hda1 using mkdosfs but on reboot all it gives
> is junk, as in does'nt give c:> prompt, but some junk charachters. Trying to
> boot using floppy also does'nt help as it accesses the HDD and hangs.
>
> Any idea how we can make both winduhs and Linux work on such a box. any
> pointers/help wud be greatful. I have heard of guys in ILUG-Delhi who've
> made such a system work for both OS. (without changing the BIOS)
>
> Thanking You,
>
> --
> Goldwyn :o)
>
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