Well, Goldie, I don't understand one thing..... Your OS is supposed to communicate with BIOS for any device queries. So if your BIOS itself is not reporting beyond 8GB, how can any OS detect more than that?? ( Correct me if I'm wrong........ )
Maybe, the best solution could be to upgrade the BIOS or change the motherboard / BIOS chip. By this, you'll get rid of any more problems to come. The new BIOS chips cost about 500 - 800 bucks, I'm not sure just check it out with a h/w vendor.
The other solution could be : Install Windows on a smaller partition, then use the other space for Linux installation. Then create the other logical drives that you want.
The 1024 Cyl. problem is easy to solve. Just use LBA32 extensions of new LILO.
For more details, check out the partition primer help that comes with the Ranish Partition Manager. http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish http://www.ml.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~mranish
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----- Original Message ----- From: Goldwyn Rodrigues goldwyn_r@softhome.net To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:58 AM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Problem the older BIOS
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)
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