🚀 go-pugleaf

On 9 Sep 1997 06:34:26 GMT, Matt Jenkins <mdj@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>Graham Daveney (graham@daveney.matra.com.au) wrote:
>
>: Here is a copy of my fdisk -l command.
>: 
>: Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 6232 cylinders
>: Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>: 
>:    Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
>: /dev/hda1           1       1     813  409720+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
>: /dev/hda2   *     814     814    1017  102816    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
>: /dev/hda3        1018    1018    1148   66024   82  Linux swap
>: /dev/hda4        1024    1149    6232 2562336   83  Linux native
>: Partition 4 does not start on cylinder boundary:
>:      phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 0, 1)
>
>Ok, I assume, then that you have installed LILO on /dev/hda2
>
>If not, then where is it installed?
>
>Most people installed it into the Master Boot Record of their HD. But here
>is my recommended course of action:
>
>
>Reset the Boot Flag to /dev/hda1 - this should allow you to boot into
>DOS/Win.
>
>use LOADLIN to get linux up, then, install LILO on, in your case /dev/hda4.
>
>after that, change the boot flag to boot hda4.
>
>My reasoning for doing this, is that if windows or dos has to be
>reinstalled, windows95 (in particular) likes to rewrite the boot record.
>
>In using my scheme, LILO is hiding safely on the linux partition which is
>invisible to evil Windows. All you have to do then is reset the boot flag.
>

CAREFUL -

As lilo uses the bios to boot you must make sure that your root partition is
inside the allowed bios 1024 cylinder limit!  This configuration puts it
outside this.  There is no way round this as it is bios limited not linux!

Your main problem is that this will require a complete re-partitioning of your
system.  A small but useful point is that you only need to create a small root
partition (20M is OK) that keeps the kernel images and bin,etc in.  Another
larger partition located any where on the disk (eg above the 1024 cylinder
limit) is then used for all the other parts of the linux file system (multiple
partitions for home etc are also a good idea!).

Of course you can always revert to solely booting off a floppy but this takes
you back to a boot performance matching MS systems!

Hope this helps.

Cheers 
John Floyd