On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 06:56:32 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> Wayne mentioned that he split his hard drive in half and put his
> entire
> C:\drive to the right and his "/" to the left of his C:\drive, this
> made
> actual sense to me, however I then had the question, do not 'dos'
> and 'win'
> require the same location below the 1024th cylinder in order to
> boot?
>
Actually no, if I'm understanding what you're asking and trying to do.
If you want to have a dual boot system you need a boot manager
such as Lilo. "/boot" needs to be your first partition because this
is where Lilo will write the information it needs to dual boot.
Lilo boots from the information in "/boot" and then sends control
to whichever OS you decide to start up. You actually boot Lilo, not
an operating system. Then it starts an operating system.
Once again, if I've missed some of the details or explained things
slightly wrong anyone with better information please correct me.
I'm only stating my understanding of how this works. :-)
Gerald
