Boot Windows from past 1024 cylinders... Can it be done?

mr-simon

Hi,

I know that Windows 2000 won't boot natively from past 1024 cylinders... But is there some trick that makes it possible to chanload it from past 1024 cylinders with lilo or grub?
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unz · l33t Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 819 Location: Roma, Italia

try gag ... http://gag.sourceforge.net/

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mr-simon · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:32 am Post subject:

I couldn't make that work. Although I liked how easy gag was to set up... I'd never seen it before. I'd consider using it more if it didn't have such a hideous font.

Anyway, I decided the easiest thing to do was to grab a large (mostly unused, I backed it up first) hdd from another machine, so I could juggle the partitions around and get the NTFS one near the beginning of the drive. I suppose it's probably an NT limitation of some description.
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