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:


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.

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