I understand that there is a way around the 1024 cylinder limit for installing 3 operating systems (Linux, OS2 and Windows (already installed). What is that way around? Is it available in Dell laptops? Thanks Dennis J. Tuchler Professor of Law 3700 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, Mo. 63108 314-977-2793
"Dennis J. Tuchler" wrote:
I understand that there is a way around the 1024 cylinder limit for installing 3 operating systems (Linux, OS2 and Windows (already installed). What is that way around? Is it available in Dell laptops?
Are you sure you have an old bios that needs this? Newer machines(post1998) can just put lba32 in /etc/lilo.conf, and you can put linux anywhere. The old workaround is to create a small partition at the front of /dev/hda, which is under the 1024 limit, and mounting /boot there. If you already have windows installed, the only way to do this would be to resize(or move) your /dev/hda1 to give you some freespace (about 10 megs) at the front of /dev/hda. Partition Magic, or Partimage(linux app) can do this. Then use linux fdisk to make a new primary partition at the front. It may be named /dev/hda2, even though it's first. Then format it with ext2. When you install linux, during setup, say you want to mount /boot on /dev/hda2; and your kernels will be there. Then you can boot windows or linux from lilo.
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 12:10, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I understand that there is a way around the 1024 cylinder limit for installing 3 operating systems (Linux, OS2 and Windows (already installed). What is that way around? Is it available in Dell laptops?
Thanks
Dennis J. Tuchler Professor of Law 3700 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, Mo. 63108 314-977-2793
Depends on which version of OS/2 or ECS and which of the many versions of windows you intend to use. Two solutions that I can see: 1. use a boot loader such as boot manager, boot magic, grub, lilo, system commander or similar 2. boot to each operating system with a floppy If you really need to be below the 1024 cylinder limit (usually about 8.4 GB) then use a windows partition that ends below about 8 GB, followed by a minimum OS/2 partition of around 400 MB (just for the operating system) and a 20 MB partition for Linux ( /boot ). Make the OS/2 partition HPFS and the Linux partition ext2 to keep windows from messing with these partitions. If you already have OS/2 and windows then you probably already have the OS/2 boot manager in place and working. In that case just add Linux to the OS/2 boot manager and you are finished. Some time ago, I had two desktop computers set up that way multi-booting into WinNT, OS/2 v4 or SuSE. Do not know for sure what will work on a Dell laptop, though you might want to try lilo. With my Toshiba laptop I installed lilo in the MBR and now use lilo to boot either WinME or SuSE. BTW the SuSE reference manual gives an explanation of how to set up lilo to boot into various types of Windows or OS/2. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01
** On 04 Dec 2001 20:14:59 -0700 Ralph Sanford
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