[CLUG] partition sizes

Peter Flynn pflynn at imbolc.ucc.ie
Mon Feb 19 17:00:47 GMT 2001


> For what it's worth:
> http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html

Aha. Thanks.

> All makes sense but........ Why have (you and) I been able to boot
> linux from partitions above 8GB. one could chalk it down to bios
> rev's but I did it successfully on a machine I bought in early
> 1997. Either way it looks like putting /boot before the windows
> partition should fix it?

Possibly, but I can't move the existing Win partition
(too much user disruption, and they have no tape drive to back it up onto).

///Peter




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