GRUB MBR /boot and 1024-cylinder limit
 

I am trying to setup windows xp and fc4 on a sony notebook.

As I understand, the BIOS looks to the MBR, the MBR knows where to find GRUB, and GRUB will look for /boot. So if this is correct, I let GRUB control the MBR and there should be no worry about the "/boot" partition beyond the 1024-cylinder limit or say at 20 gig since the MBR is most definitly within the limit.

Thanks for any explainations.

The newer versions of GRUB don't have this Cylinder Limit problem. :)

You got it. I've got Mandriva's /boot partition on hdb7 starting at around the sixty gig mark. Windows is on hda1, ububtu hda2 starting at around the 40 gig mark.