Re: dual-booting without GRUB or LILO

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Phil Schaffner wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:41 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
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> > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:38, - - s r b - - wrote:
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> >
> > > 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:
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> 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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