dual-booting without GRUB or LILO

[Phil Schaffner]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:58 -0400, - - s r b - - wrote:
...
> From that webpage is the following quote... does this still apply to 
> Fedora Core 2 with GRUB?
> 
> "The location of the /boot partition on the hard drive is critical so 
> that you don't get screwed by the infamous BIOS 1024 cylinder limit 
> <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2>. The BIOS
> of 
> older systems can't access data beyond cylinder 1024, which is ~8.5
> GB. 
> A simple way to avoid the BIOS 1024 limit is to create /boot within
> the 
> first 1024 cylinders (~8.5 GB) of the hard drive."
> 
> The reason I ask is because I was intending to install it AFTER a 4GB 
> and 8GB partition... which puts it past the 12GB mark.

I'm still in the habit of creating a /boot within the 1024 limit, but
IIRC GRUB and modern versions of LILO no longer have that limitation.

Phil