Quoting wb2oyc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >If you need to use DOS you'll have to upgrade the BIOS, twiddle the BIOS > >to work (try something like CHS=1023/64/63), or use a hack like Ontrack > >Disk Manager. > > > Not so. Just make sure that your DOS partition and any Linux root is > completely within the limits of the 504MB. The problem comes from the > BIOS being old and not permitting access to cylinders beyond the 1024 > limit. > > Linux doesn't have any problem with that, UNLESS you use Lilo. Linux > itself DOES NOT use the BIOS, but Lilo does, and that is why any root > must be within the limits of the BIOS itself. > > Just use the rest of it for the other partitions, such as /usr and /home. > Its kinda cool in a way because you can have everything other than the > root itself beyond the limit, and DOS will never see it and therefore > can't screw with it either.
Taking that philosophy to its extreme, and using loadlin to boot linux, you can have a DOS partition of 504MB and all the linux partitions outside the pale. (Loadlin uses a copy of the kernel within its filesystem.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.