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Date:	Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:05:31 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Booting above 1024?

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Ray Davison wrote:

> Some comments lately have indicated that 1024 is not a limit anymore,
> maybe.

It depends on the BIOS and how recent the h/w is. Thanks to Steven's help
yesterday, I now have a bootable P: eCS (maintenance) partition on the 80G
hdd of my Shuttle XPC. That happens to be beyond the 1024.

> How does one determine if a machine can boot above 1024? Is it
> dependent on BIOS, OS...? I would hope this could be done without
> having an OS on a HDD.

Ray,

I can't quote you the syntax by memory, but there is a Query Bootable
command
for FDISK, and a similar one for LVM, that will give you this info. It has
been
quoted on the List a few times, including in a fairly recent reply by
Steven.
(Assuming you haven't had the List stoppage problems I've been having.) To
use
these, you would need at least something -- util. disk set, or a bootable CD
like eCS
install cd #1 -- that can boot a management or maintenance (command line
will do)
version of OS/2, in order to run these query commands. You do not need to
have an
OS installed on the Hdd, but I'm doubtful it would work against a bare drive
with no
partitions.

Jordan

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