Re: 1024 cylinder boot limit

Don Williams wrote:
Does anyone know how to overcome the 1024 virtual cylinder limit for booting OSR 5.xx when running Windows and Unix on the same box?


The only way I know to install OSR5 for dual boot is to reorganise the Windows partitions so that there is sufficient room in the first 1024 cylinders for an OSR5 boot partition.

I suppose a workaround is to use something like Vmware.
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