boot beyond 8GB

[Treutwein; Bernhard]

Hi Marian,

you wrote:

> I got Windows NT 4 (SP 6) on a 20 GB drive
> and wish to install OS/2 Warp at the 10 GB boundary
> and Linux at 15 GB. Will GRUB be able to boot and
> run these OSs installed beyond the 8 GB boundary ?
> Thanks in advance for your answer.

Matthias wrote:

> If your BIOS supports it, I know that linux will work.  It's been a

it should work even if your BIOS is not able to handle
the full drive directly. In this case grub should live 
somewhere below 8 GB (in a partition with a 
file system grub understands).

regards
    Bernhard Treutwein
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