Goldwyn,
you may try using disk manager to gain access above 8 GB, thats if u have a seagate or samsung hdd, u need to install some overlay drivers which are loaded at boot up, after which lilo takes over :)
i have a western digital drive of 10GB, which i run without any probs, using ez-drive, a discwizard equivalent for western digital drives,
hth, regards, Anil
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
Hi,
I have a friend who has a P-2000 MMX with an old BIOS. the BIOS detects only 8GB HDD and is not re-programmable. We made an 8000MB partition and installed Winduhs. And started installing Linux and the installation detected the whole 40 GB HDD. We continued installation by trying ot make a root partition of 2.5 GB, din't allow at all because of 1024 prob. of LILO. So made a 20MB /boot and the rest of the partitions to proceed. Linux works fine(even beyond 8GB), but windows is jacked. The blue bar just refuses to move ahead when we boot in winduhs saying "Warning: Logical drives exist beyond Z".
Formatted the partition /dev/hda1 using mkdosfs but on reboot all it gives is junk, as in does'nt give c:> prompt, but some junk charachters. Trying to boot using floppy also does'nt help as it accesses the HDD and hangs.
Any idea how we can make both winduhs and Linux work on such a box. any pointers/help wud be greatful. I have heard of guys in ILUG-Delhi who've made such a system work for both OS. (without changing the BIOS)
Thanking You,
-- Goldwyn :o)