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Re: Boot Linux with LILO



On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 03:22:27PM +0100, Fagiolino wrote:
> I have win 95 in the first partition (16 GB) and I want to install Linux
> in the second partition... how I can boot Linux from this partition?!?

See other followups regarding LILO -- you'll have to use some sort of
linux loader, though an alternative to LILO (which changes your Windows
boot process) is to use LOADLIN.EXE, a DOS executable which you run
after booting to DOS only (not a full Win95 boot).

You may need to specify a linear option to boot Linux from as large a
disk as you've got.  There are concerns with earlier (2.0.x) kernels in
booting from large disks, this is generally a BIOS issue, not a Linux
issue itself.

And finally -- can Win95 even *use* a 16 Gigabyte partition?  I thought
it was restricted to 2 GB.  Win98 doesn't have this limitation.  I'm a
bit confused.

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