Re: [TCLUG:2449] Boot from hard drive using NT bootloader?

[Chris Schumann <whizkid@dwave.net>]

On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Sandipan Panigrahi wrote:

> Now all of lilo documentation says that you must have lilo data in the
> first 1024 Cylinders of the disk. In your case when you copy the lilo
> file to NT somewhere on your C: drive it could get copied to any of the
> 8128 cylinders.

I was unclear. The data from fdisk is for my second IDE drive. My boot
drive (drive C:) is a 2.1GB drive, with one FAT16 partition. However, only
the boot sector is on this drive. I imagine that lilo would also like the
kernel to be in this space as well, right?

> Mark this drive to be bootable and voila you should in theory be able to
> use the NT loader to boot this drive which when it boots will run the
> autoexec which will boot linux without the use of lilo. 

There's an idea! My first drive has 2 or 3MB of space unpartitioned. I
will try using that for a DOS/loadlin solution.

Chris Schumann <whizkid@dwave.net>

> > clue:
> > 
> > fdisk /dev/hdb prints this:
> > 
> >    Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hdb1   ?        1        1     8128  4096480+   7  OS/2 HPFS
> > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> >      phys=(507, 255, 63) should be (507, 15, 63)
> > /dev/hdb2         7677     8129    10544  1217664   83  Linux native
> > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> >      phys=(658, 255, 63) should be (658, 15, 63)
> > 
> > This is an 8.4GB drive.  Could it have something to do with LILO's
> > 1024-cylinder limit? Is there a way to not use LILO?
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