[Gllug] duel booting

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Wed Jul 11 08:31:36 UTC 2001


Duel booting :) I like it... something very freudian about it...

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:36:10AM +0100, George F. Saxby wrote:
> 	I have an 18Gb drive which can be parted any which way ( currently 2
> parts under the 1024 cyl limit BUT LINUX refuses to boot. The so called
> rescue / boot disk created by mandrake 8 does not work either.
>  Any one have a fool proof way of duel booting a large Hard disk?

Do you get to LILO: ? What's the particular error message that Linux gives? 

Also, you can boot partitions over the 1024 limit with the lba32 option in
lilo.conf..

Cheers,

Alex.

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