Casey Liscum on Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:28:31 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] That idiotic cylinder 1024 problem


i actually had this same OS trio booting on my computer last year.  i'm 
pretty sure i ended up using nt's boot loader because i had trouble with 
lilo.  i also remember spending way too much time getting it the way i 
wanted.  both nt and win98 proved unstable and i had problems with rh5.2 
as well (although i think the blame would go on me for that one :) ).  i 
ended up zapping the whole deal and dual booting win98 and rhl.

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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:

> How do 98 and NT share the same boot partition? My current 98 partition is
> fat32... I don't know, but I thought NT couldn't handle fat32, and what if
> I made my NT partition NTFS?
> Or couldn't I also put the linux boot partition on the first part of the
> 2nd drive, that works right?
> 
> --
> Michelle Weber
> umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Mental wrote:
> 
> > You shouldnt _need_ anything other than lilo and fdisk. If you setup a
> > small /boot partition near the front of your drive, you'll be fine.
> > NT and '98 share the same boot partition. This isn't a linux specific
> > problem. Its a limitation of crappy hardware. IDE is a broken
> > technology. Its cheap, but it has more than its share of drawbacks.
> > There's a couple solutions. Ditch IDE and go all scsi (I did, its much
> > faster anyways) or ditch x86 (which by default, sucks) and get a real
> > computer. The only thing keeping me in x86 land at home is
> > entertainment. There just arent that many popular games ported to the
> > alpha or sparc :)
> >
> > The utility previously mentioned that someone wrote to locate a section
> > of the hard drive is cool, but before I use it I'll need to check on
> > some stuff about ext2. If its anything like ufs then there's a small but
> > real chance that the kernel image could possibly be relocated at a
> > later time. Just due to how fragmentation is handled. Again, I'm not
> > certain, its something I may look into out of curiosity. Its not exactly
> > pressing. The only ide drives I have are moth balled  in my closet.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mental
> > --
> >
> > "you make insanity respectable."
> > --Helcat on the subject of Mental.
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:
> >
> > > Hm, well I just got a 20.4 gig drive, it's still sitting in the box.
> > > Ideally I'd like to have linux, NT Server, and win98 all on the drive.
> > > Is this possible? Or do you think I'd need to use some commercial boot
> > > manager? Also, I'll have a 1.6 gig drive in the box as a slave drive if
> > > that would helpful in trying to set this up. And I already own Partition
> > > Magic 4.0.  Partition Magic 5.0 is out on their website, has anyone used
> > > it? Does it do anything more than the 4.0 version?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Michelle Weber
> > > umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michael W. Ryan wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Does this problem only exist in linux? Or does it affect other operating
> > > > > systems as well?
> > > >
> > > > It's a PC thing.  Blame IBM.
> > > >
> > > > Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT     | OTAKON 2000
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