multi-boot 98/nt/linue

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com (Ron Peterson)]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Vince McHugh wrote:

> 2nd Make Sure you say NO when asked if you want large
> disk support during Win98 setup. This will make sure
> that Win98 is installed on Fat and not Fat32. it will
> also limit the Windows system partion (C:) to 2 gigs

I'm not sure why you're advocating FAT over FAT32.  Either can work.

You can also boot from paritions above the tradional 8.4GB limit if you
use the 'lba32' option in your lilo.conf.  See 'man lilo.conf' for more
details.

The reason Windows needs to be installed first, is because MS, in their
arrogance, takes over the MBR on install.  The Linux install process lets
you get it back.

A simple lilo.conf, to boot 98/2000/Linux might look like:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
lba32
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=linux
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda7
        append="hdc=ide-scsi" <== this is for an IDE CD-RW.

other=/dev/hda1
        optional
        label=windows

You'll notice that there is only one Windows boot label, although I have
both 98 and 2000 on this machine.  Basically, this puts you into 2000's
boot loader, which then asks if you'd like to boot 98 or 2000.

As you can see below, I'm clearly booting this machine from above the
8.4GB limit.

289$ sudo /usr/sbin/cfdisk -Ps
Partition Table for /dev/hda

            First    Last
 # Type     Sector   Sector   Offset  Length   Filesystem Type (ID)
Flags
-- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ----------------------
---------
 1 Primary        0 16386299      63 16386300  Win95 FAT32 (0B)       Boot
(80)
 2 Primary 16386300 90060389       0 73674090  Win95 Ext'd (LBA) (0F) None
(00)
 5 Logical 16386300 32772599      63 16386300  HPFS/NTFS (07)         None
(00)
 6 Logical 32772600 48403844      63 15631245  BeOS fs (EB)           None
(00)
 7 Logical 48403845 52307639      63  3903795  Linux (83)             None
(00)
 8 Logical 52307640 56211434      63  3903795  Linux (83)             None
(00)
 9 Logical 56211435 64019024      63  7807590  Linux (83)             None
(00)
10 Logical 64019025 71826614      63  7807590  Linux (83)             None
(00)
11 Logical 71826615 85497929      63 13671315  Linux (83)             None
(00)
12 Logical 85497930 87457859      63  1959930  Linux (83)             None
(00)
13 Logical 87457860 89016164      63  1558305  Linux (83)             None
(00)
14 Logical 89016165 90060389      63  1044225  Linux swap (82)        None
(00)

You can only create four primary partitions.  I.E. - you'll need to use an
extended partition if you want to divvy up your Linux install.  Since
there is only one extended partition, which contains all of your logical
drives, your logical drives must be contiguous.  You can just stuff you
whole Linux distro in a single partition, but as discussed recently on
this list, having multiple partitions facilitates upgrades, migrating
software, preventing spool queues or log files from eating your system,
etc.

You're gonna have more fun than going over Niagra Falls in a barrel.

-Ron-
https://www.yellowbank.com/

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