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Article #125Re: Win2000/Linux LILO Question ?
From: Jim Ankrum
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:49
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:49
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> Of course, after using words like 'always', I now have a > problem :-) > > I've just bought 5 new computers, 4 of which need to dual > boot into win2k/linux. We partitioned the 40Gb disks into > 2x20Gb partitions within the Win2k install procedure, and > installed Win2k into the 1st partition. So far, so good. > > Redhat 7.1 highlights my '/' partition as invalid (red) > because it starts after cylinder 1024. Should this be > a concern, or should I just go ahead anyway. Before just > buying more disks for everyone, I'd like to see if we > could install linux into the 2nd 20G of disk space... > > Would I do better by installing Linux into the 1st 20Gb, > then installing win2k into the 2nd 20Gb and using the > Win2k bootloader ? > > ATB, > Simon. I've done installs with RedHat like this... just do the install in text mode or expert mode. Add the flag lba32 to the lilo configuration and it should go just fine. Jim
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