Red Hat 8.0 and installing after the 1024 cylinder???

[jacksondorado]

I have a 3 year old Toshiba 4090 laptop and installed a 30GB hard drive on it. I have been trying to install Windows 2000 professional and Linux 7.1 but have problems, one being not being able to install the bootloader after the 1024 cylinder. What I want is about 25GB for Windows and the rest for Linux. I tried updating the bios but that did not allow me to do it still.

I also tried using the first 4 GB for Linux but Windows wouldn't let me install on the second partition.

Is there a way to do the dual boot with one Windows partition and one Linux partition(plus swap) and perhaps one dos partition for sharing between OSes?

I'm wondering if RH 8.0 allows the bootloader install at the end of the drive.

thanks. "There's no such thing as 'should have'."

 

[fluid11]

Install Windows first, then RH second. When you get to the part of the RH installation about installing a bootloader (GRUB or LILO), just tell it to install into the MBR. This will overwrite your NTLDR, so you will use GRUB or LILO from this point on to boot either OS. RH usually does a good job of picking up other OS's and adding them to the bootloader menu during the RH installation. If for some reason it doesn't see your Windows partition, just edit the /etc/grub.conf or /etc/lilo.conf file and add it yourself.

If you would prefer to use NTLDR, instead of GRUB or LILO, then have a look at this -->

http://www.redhat.com/advice/tips/dualboot.html

ChrisP

 

[jacksondorado]

Thanks for the help.

Does that mean that Red Hat 8.0 will install at the end of the hard drive? Right now I have Win2K installed in the first 25GB of the drive. Can you make a quick recommendation on drive partitions in this case?

thanks. "There's no such thing as 'should have'."

 

[fluid11]

No, install the bootloader into the MBR during the RH installation.

A very basic filesystem layout would be the following (in this order)....

/boot - 50MB
<swap> - 2x your RAM
/ - whatever's left


If you have a server, then you probably want a more customized partition layout.


ChrisP

 

[MrRohan]

i think choosing GRUB as your boot loader will solve ur problem, basically GRUB is meant for overcoming the boot problem 1024 cylinders.
try our luck.

 

[fluid11]

I think the 1024 cylinder problem is a BIOS problem, not a bootloader problem.