This is a boot loader (the graphical menu that allows you to choose what OS
you want to load at bootup) issue, not a distro one. Mandrake used LILO up to
7.1, when it replaced it for GRUB. LILO at that time was not able to boot
from a partition that was past the 1024th cylinder. This is a BIOS
limitation, and GRUB was designed with a workaround for this. By the time of
Mandrake 7.2, LILO had been improved do that it could also boot from past the
1024th cylinder. In Mandrake 8.0, LILO is once again the default boot loader.
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:09, James S Bear wrote:
> This is why I use Mandrake. I used to play with redhat, but I learned from
> doing that that you need to put the boot sector towards the front of the
> disk. If you have a machine with Winders already installed and then want to
> put redhat overtop, it is almost impossible to get that boot sector towards
> the front of the disk so you are using the Windows mbr. I am assuming that
> Mandake solves this problem by...? I don't know.
>
> Quoting tazmun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I've been actually dual booting one of my systems with win 2000 NTFS file
> > system for some time now with MD 8.0 with no problems. All seemed to
> > work flawlessly and was set up on original install no muss no fuss.
> > However at this point I'm also trying on another system to get Red Hat
> > 7.1 going. This
> > box also has win 2000 on it with NTFS file system. So far I've not
> > figured out how to get the RedHat booted with out using the boot up disk
> > I made. The way the Red Hat is installed is similiar to the mandrake with
> > the Root filesystem being on hdb5....hdb1 is win NTFS as well as hda is
> > all NTFS. Is
> > the lilo used in mandrake totally different or is it the Aurora giving me
> > the dual boot screen at start up. I get a dark bluish screen(I'm
> > somewhat color blind so don't quote me on this could be purple too)
> > offering me NT, Linux, Floppy. I can edit the properties of this screen
> > in the GUI config offered in Mandrake as well. The Mandrake distro
> > claims that this particular version of Aurora is made especially for them
> > in RPM information but that downloads for other distros are available as
> > well on their site. Any idea where that site would be. In searchs thus
> > far no luck. www.aurora.com seems to be a company of some sort not
> > related to the aurora I speak of here. Even if I find this site is it
> > likely it will solve my problem?
> >
> > I realize this is a bit off topic being it is redhat oriented, but this
> > list
> > seems more informative then the redhat install list. Ya gotta give
> > Mandrake
> > a high 5 on this issue since they seem to have left redhat in the dust on
> > dual booting. Any suggestions here other then just run mandrake would be
> > greatly appreciated... :-)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tazmun
>
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