[K12OSN] problem in starting a new dual boot machine in Linux

Burke Almquist balmquist at mindfirestudios.com
Wed Mar 9 12:33:09 UTC 2005


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This is true, if you use lba32 instead of liner/CHS addressing. See man 
lilo.conf.
I'm not sure how much of it is a bios issue.

On Mar 9, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Rob Owens wrote:

> I don't think this is true anymore.  I seem to
> remember reading something about bioses (if that's a
> word) after a certain date did not have the 1024
> cylinder limit.  I can't say for sure, but I can tell
> you for sure that I've installed Linux on a machine
> that came with Windows XP--I resized the Windows
> partition to something like 27 GB and installed Linux
> after that, /boot and all.  I used lilo, not grub.
>
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