dual-booting without GRUB or LILO
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srb at 295.ca
Fri Jul 16 16:58:44 UTC 2004
Phil Schaffner wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:41 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:38, - - s r b - - wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Is there a way to boot into Fedora on a system that also contains 2
>>>windows partitions (NT & XP), without installing GRUB or LILO?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>I am not entirely sure what you are trying to accomplish
>>
>>
>
>Ditto.
>
>Don't think you can do it without a loader for Fedora of some sort, but
>it does not have to be on the MBR. Can use the Windoze boot loader with
>GRUB or LILO on the /boot (or / if no /boot) partition. See:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
>
>Phil
>
>
Thanks Phil,
From that webpage is the following quote... does this still apply to
Fedora Core 2 with GRUB?
"The location of the /boot partition on the hard drive is critical so
that you don't get screwed by the infamous BIOS 1024 cylinder limit
<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2>. The BIOS of
older systems can't access data beyond cylinder 1024, which is ~8.5 GB.
A simple way to avoid the BIOS 1024 limit is to create /boot within the
first 1024 cylinders (~8.5 GB) of the hard drive."
The reason I ask is because I was intending to install it AFTER a 4GB
and 8GB partition... which puts it past the 12GB mark.
Thanks.
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