[Cooker] making dual-boot systems (lilo 1024 problem)
System: Pentium II Celeron @ 433MHz 64Mb RAM 10Gb HDD If I resize the DOS partition to 4Gb, the remaining 6Gb would be _plenty_ for Linux, of course, but I cannot make LILO boot the partition (it's past block 1024). I have known of this limitation for the last year or so but it didn't matter because I had my OSes on different hard disks. However, I have customers asking for Linux was wondering if there was an easy way to add Linux to a currently Windows-only hard drive. AFAIK, I could remove the old partition, install Linux as the first and then Windows as the second partition, but that would of course mean losing the old Windows partition. Perhaps there is a boot loader which can overcome this problem? TIA, Hugo
RE: [Cooker] making dual-boot systems (lilo 1024 problem)
Use Partition Magic. You can re-size the windows partition (which doesn't lose any data!), move it up a gig to leave room for Linux, and then use the PM boot magic to boot into either Linux or Windows. Make both Windows and Linux partitions primary. I'm not certain, but you may be able to boot to a partition 1024 with PM Boot, and you could then put Linux at the end of your Windows partition. At any rate, you can resize down the windows partition with PM without losing any data. -Original Message- From: Hugo Rabson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] making dual-boot systems (lilo 1024 problem) System: Pentium II Celeron @ 433MHz 64Mb RAM 10Gb HDD If I resize the DOS partition to 4Gb, the remaining 6Gb would be _plenty_ for Linux, of course, but I cannot make LILO boot the partition (it's past block 1024). I have known of this limitation for the last year or so but it didn't matter because I had my OSes on different hard disks. However, I have customers asking for Linux was wondering if there was an easy way to add Linux to a currently Windows-only hard drive. AFAIK, I could remove the old partition, install Linux as the first and then Windows as the second partition, but that would of course mean losing the old Windows partition. Perhaps there is a boot loader which can overcome this problem? TIA, Hugo
Re: [Cooker] making dual-boot systems (lilo 1024 problem)
At 08.14 2000.01.07 -0600, you wrote: AFAIK, I could remove the old partition, install Linux as the first and then Windows as the second partition, but that would of course mean losing the old Windows partition. The solution I used was to use the freeware PResizer (Sorry, don't have a URL). With it, I first resized the Win partition, then moved it 20MB higher on the drive. Create an ext2 partition in the new 20MB of free space at the beginning and mount it at /boot.
Re: [Cooker] making dual-boot systems (lilo 1024 problem)
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000, Hugo Rabson wrote: If I resize the DOS partition to 4Gb, the remaining 6Gb would be _plenty_ for Linux, of course, but I cannot make LILO boot the partition (it's past block 1024).... Perhaps there is a boot loader which can overcome this problem? BootMagic comes with PartitionMagic, which you will need anyway. BootMagic is IMO very ugly-looking, but appears to be able to boot anywhere on any disk. It is only the BIOS which has a 1024 cylinder bootable limit. This BIOS would then only ever boot BootMagic, which PowerQuest installs below 1024 (actually in the MBR). -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
