The rise of linux (was RE: [ILUG] Pre configured boxes)

[Glen Gray]

I've had this happend before. I think it is only a problem if the linux
partition is a primary partition and situated past 2Gb. I currently have
my linux partition about 3Gb's into a 14Gb drive. But it's on an
extended partition. Works fine.

Glen.

PS. Thanks to who ever mentioned lilo -u the other week. I accidently
insalled lilo to mbr. Now  I have NT/98/Redhat6.1 running nicely from a
boot menu :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John P. Looney [SMTP:jplooney-ilug at linux.ie]
> Sent:	Friday, November 26, 1999 9:37 AM
> To:	ilug
> Subject:	Re: The rise of linux (was RE: [ILUG] Pre configured
> boxes)
> 
> On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 05:11:19PM +0000, Miles mentioned:
> > >  Alas, you can't always do that, when Windows is installed on the
> box too.
> > > All of the root partition has to be in the first 528MB. Otherwise
> lilo can
> > > do strange things...I state again - RedHat did the partition
> dividing. Not
> > > me.
> > Um, the first 528mb? You sure about this? I've installed dual-boot
> m/cs
> > with 2Gb windoze partitions and linux went on sweetly. I thought it
> was
> > the root partition had to be below the 4Gb mark (something to do
> with the
> > cylinder count) . 
> 
>  Hmmm. Maybe they fixed it now they used bzImage, but I thought that
> the
> BIOS was responsible for getting the kernel into memory during the
> second
> stage load, and BIOSes can only see 528MB of a disk ? Anyone know for
> sure
> ?
> 
> Kate
> 
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