Hello,

Can anyone tell me, is there still the requirement that Red Hat's /boot
needs to be within the first 8MB of a partitioned drive? I know this used
to be the case with the older Red Hat and LILO...
I will be using Red Hat 8.0 and GRUB for the boot loader, dual-booting
with Windows 98SE.

Thanks in advance,
Scott Navarre

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:24:52 -0700, Scott M. Navarre <smn@asus.net> wrote: > Hello, > > Can
anyone tell me, is there still the requirement that Red Hat's /boot > needs to be within the
first 8MB of a partitioned drive? I know this used > to be the case with the older Red Hat
and LILO... > I will be using Red Hat 8.0 and GRUB for the boot loader, dual-booting > with
Windows 98SE. > > Thanks in advance, > Scott Navarre > >

No, that requirement has been removed by a upgrade in the kernel and other software.

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Keith wrote:
Is part of the requirement not down to the BIOS?

Paul

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:31:24 +0100,
Paul Black <nospam@nospam.saturnine.org.uk> wrote:
I have run RH 7+ on OOOLLLD 486's with the new kernel with no
problem.

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In article <bgoplc$aec$4@zippy.local>,
Paul Black <news@saturnine.org.uk> wrote:
Yes, it's primarily a BIOS restriction. Once the BIOS interface spec
was upgraded the other programs involved (LILO, Grub) were updated to
use the new i/f.

If you find a machine with an old BIOS you'll still have the restriction.

John
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