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Date:	Mon, 8 Mar 2004 09:31:44 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Booting above 1024?

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Peter Skye wrote:
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> Ray Davison wrote:
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> AFAIK the boot-1024 restriction is a motherboard BIOS restriction.
I need a go-nogo gage.
>
> Back to your question. I *think* that some Boot Managers (perhaps
> AiRBoot or System Commander) can boot above 1024. The motherboard BIOS
> boots to the boot manager which is in the lower 1024, and the boot
> manager then uses its own disk i/o routines to boot anywhere on your
> large disk. I think.

Have you ever actually used Air Boot? Is Kiewitz French? See below.

Ray

" AiR-BOOT is (c) Copyright by Martin Kiewitz, 1998-2003."
" - You may only use this software, if you are NOT and were NEVER
working for american (US) government at any time"

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