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by **Jeff** » Wed, 07 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Hi everyone

question?
I want to dual boot win98 and Linux and use LILO to do it.

I just bought a new sys. ( it arrives tomorrow ), so I have a chance to
clear this all up now. The sys is a:

P II 266
Tekram motherboard Bx (intel chipset )
64 Meg SD-RAM (PC 100)
6.4 Gig Hard Drive.....

anyways, I want to be able to just divide my hardrive 3.2 gig to Windows
and 3.2 gig to Linux ( I realize that I need a swap for linux.... that will
be part of its 3.2.gig ).

Can I just divide the disk into two ( really three ) partitions. I read
that some of the newer bioses no longer have the 1024 cyclinder boot limit
and thus do not need to have both Oses bootable portions below the 1023
cylinder.

I was told my Bios chip has LBA.... does this mean My chip is free from
these limits or am I still confined by this limit.... or how do I find out
if my chip is "new enough".

Otherwise I'll have to make a whole bunch of partitions and I'd rather just
have my disk divided like:

3.2 gig Windows
3.1 gig Linux native
0.1 gig Linux Swap

Any help and clarification would be great..... oh I cant wait till this
beast is running.

jeff

by **Cybiade** » Wed, 07 Oct 1998 04:00:00

>Hi everyone

>question?
>I want to dual boot win98 and Linux and use LILO to do it.

<snip>

>3.2 gig Windows
>3.1 gig Linux native
>0.1 gig Linux Swap

>Any help and clarification would be great..... oh I cant wait till this
>beast is running.

>jeff

I'd install W98 first...use its fdisk utility to create the partitions
you want..it will set the first one active...install W98 on first...boot
up Linux from your CD, floppy wherever and use fdisk (Linux fdisk) to
change the ID toggle from FAT32 to ex2fs...use the m key to look at
options...fdisk may complain about corrupt boot sectors and stuff BTW, I
had this drama with RH 5.0 and Win98 on one partition. God knows what
Bill's Operating System does to the MBR but Linux don't like
it...anyhow, use fdisk to set bootable flags for your Linux partition
and off you go...if you boot into W98 and install any stuff, be doubly
sure it don't trash LILO in the MBR or unset it from active. Bill
doesn't like his OSes being second best on someone's HDD...sounds
facetious, but Windows stuff is notorious for unsetting active flags
from any bootloader, whether it be LILO or OS/2's BootManager...good
luck.
'Later
Peter
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by **James Acom** » Thu, 08 Oct 1998 04:00:00

> Hi everyone

> question?
> I want to dual boot win98 and Linux and use LILO to do it.

> I just bought a new sys. ( it arrives tomorrow ), so I have a chance to
> clear this all up now. The sys is a:

> P II 266
> Tekram motherboard Bx (intel chipset )
> 64 Meg SD-RAM (PC 100)
> 6.4 Gig Hard Drive.....

> anyways, I want to be able to just divide my hardrive 3.2 gig to Windows
> and 3.2 gig to Linux ( I realize that I need a swap for linux.... that will
> be part of its 3.2.gig ).

If you haven't figured it out yet drop me an email, also read the LILO
faq on append flags!, I had to tell LILO what my drive geomtry was and
specify that in an append line inside lilo.conf.

James

by **Robi** » Thu, 05 Nov 1998 04:00:00

Can you attach a copy of your Lilo.conf ........ Sure would help!.

Thanks Robin

> > Hi everyone

> > question?
> > I want to dual boot win98 and Linux and use LILO to do it.

> > I just bought a new sys. ( it arrives tomorrow ), so I have a chance to
> > clear this all up now. The sys is a:

> > P II 266
> > Tekram motherboard Bx (intel chipset )
> > 64 Meg SD-RAM (PC 100)
> > 6.4 Gig Hard Drive.....

> > anyways, I want to be able to just divide my hardrive 3.2 gig to Windows
> > and 3.2 gig to Linux ( I realize that I need a swap for linux.... that will
> > be part of its 3.2.gig ).

> If you haven't figured it out yet drop me an email, also read the LILO
> faq on append flags!, I had to tell LILO what my drive geomtry was and
> specify that in an append line inside lilo.conf.

> James

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