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Dual booting Linux 6.1 with Windows 98

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by sdhanvada 4 views

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Sir,
I have dual-booted linux 6.1 with Win98 many times but that was always on 10 GB Hard drives.This time i am doing it on a 40 GB hard drive and after creating a primary partition of 10Gb and installing Win98 on that i am not able to create linuxnative or swap partitions.And in
case i use the linux fdisk utility and create these partitions manually i am able to install linux but after that linux is not able to write to the boot sector - so i don't get the lilo boot option.
Can u help - please.
Regards,
Seetha

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by lnxguy

Howdy,
Try booting from a boot floppy, mount the hard drive (/dev/hda....etc.), then cd to /sbin and run /sbin/lilo.

If your /etc/lilo.conf file is correct, you will be able to boot into the LILO prompt -as long as you set the boot record to theMBR.

Windows 9X overwrites the MBR, so LILO is wiped out, but the /etc/lilo/conf file is still intact and will configure lilo when you run /sbin lilo

Hope that helps,

Kevin

by gregory pleau

Welcome to the 1024 Cylinder bug. Most computers really don't like to load operating systems above the 3 GB mark. This is due to a bug that dates back to the original ROM BIOS routines in the 1980's.

It is however possible to get around this

Irun Win98, Win2000 and Linux on my 25 GB Hard Disk. The way I managed to pull this off was to make sure BOTH boot sectors were below the 3 GB mark. One way to get away with this is to use some clever allocations

/boot - First 100 MB of disk
(MSDOS/WIN98) - 10 GB Space
/ (root filesystem) - LAST 10 GB Space

Partition Magic 6 is REALLY handy for picking up that Windows Partition and moving it 100 MB toward the end of the drive.

Good Luck!

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