dual-booting without GRUB or LILO

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 11:58, - - s r b - - wrote:
> 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.
> 

that limitation is determined by the bios.
I just installed FC2 on a disk in a laptop that already had 12gb of data
on the ntfs partition.

I created the linux partitions all beyond the 18gb ntfs partiton and it
worked flawlessly.