[ltp] T40 LBA

[Carl Nygard]

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 01:58, Jordan Benjamin wrote:
> I was just wondering, has anyone had problems or success with placing a 
> boot partition past the first 1024 cylinders on a T40? I've tried this 
> with grub, and it never seems to work (but it would be nice not to have 
> to *move* the windows partition so the linux boot partition is before it).

I put GRUB on MBR, things seem to work fine:

[root@traveler root]# fdisk -l /dev/hda
 
Disk /dev/hda: 36.8 GB, 36883129344 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4764 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      2055  15535768+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2          2056      4354  17380440   83  Linux
/dev/hda3          4626      4764   1050840   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4          4355      4625   2048760    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          4355      4625   2048728+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
 
Partition table entries are not in disk order