[LUAU] 4.3 Gig Drives

[bbraun at sparcy.synack.net]

Quick rundown before I go to Boston for Usenix conference.

Basically, installed the disk mapping software, which thoughtfully
places its self in the MBR.  First hack was to dd the first 512 bytes
off the hard disk, which should include the mbr.  Then install lilo,
then place those 512 bytes into the first 512 bytes of the partition.
This way, lilo boots, software runs, then linux boots.  This kind of
worked.  The much better solution was to just install lilo in the
first partition rather than in the mbr.  This is all fine and dandy
as long as your first partition is a linux partition.
So in this way you have software run, lilo boots, linux boots.

A similar method makes lilo work with the NT boot loader (piece of crap).

Rob

On Thursday, Dec 1998 at 20:12:3 Shawn Evans wrote: 
 | Interested
 | 
 | bbraun at sparcy.synack.net wrote:
 | 
 | > Oh yeah, extensively dealt with the 1024cyl limit.  Fortunatly, with
 | > any modern bios (I don't know of a bios that was manufactured in the
 | > last 4 years that doesn't have this), has mappings so it appears that
 | > the drive is less cylinders than it really is.
 | > Anyway, if you have a relativly new machine, its not a problem.
 | >
 | > However, if you have an older machine, only boot off a partition that
 | > fits into the first 1024 cylinders.  Although... I did figure out a way
 | > to make the drive mapping software work with lilo and linux, if anyone
 | > is interested in it for pure hack value.  =)
 | >
 | > Rob
 | >