[SWLUG] L 99 after install on 160GB HD

[Jonathan Wright]

Davage, Marcus wrote:
> Any clues? Does Linux not read past the BIOS's 135GB limitation, even 
> though Windows 200 does?

I this case, Windows isn't. Windows is hard coded to always require the
first partition to install all it's book information (found this out the
hard way! :). Win98 put it's bootloader there first, but Win2k probably
overwrote it when it was installed, meaning that it only needs to access
the 5Gb partition to boot.

Maybe u could resize the Win98 partition, knocking off a few meg (about
10-15 should do it) and create a new ext2 partition in that space,
mounting it as /boot. then, just get lilo to boot the kernel off that
partition and you shouldn't have any problems with the size of the drive
then (the kernel will do the rest).

HTH.

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