[Gllug] grub and dual booting with windoze xp

[Ms. Lene Jensen]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:50:02AM +1300, Jonathan wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 9:02 am, Peter Cameron wrote:
> > > Is there a 1024 cylinder limit as there is with LILO?
> > 
> > This has long since been overcome, I think.
> 
> It isn't a LILO limit so much as a hardware limitation, given the way
> LILO works.  Newer hardware doesn't present that problem.

Haven't read the original post, but LILO/Grub can boot from above 1024.  
The big limitation for this is more likely going to be BIOS. Older 
bioses had problems with boot sectors above 1024, so maybe an upgrade of 
that might help?  I don't think hardware is an issue at all.

LJ
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