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.
