From: Rick Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> I am having major problems installing 5.2 on an 18GB EIDE disk.
>> I have downloaded and created the latest 5.2 install image (boot.img)
>> from Dec 29, 1998. The system can not seem to see beyond the 1024th
>> cylinder of the disk. Is this just a total lie and can I just do
>> this, or is this a legit limit that can not be crossed??
>
>> I've been staring at howtos and screens on this all day, and to be
>> honest, my head is starting to hurt over this.
>
>Paul,
> There are 1024 cylinder issues, but they can be worked around,
>normally fairly easily. What's your partition structure like?
I just installed RH6.0 on a machine with a 2GB disk, the BIOS of
which for some unknown reason accepts disk geometries with up to 65535
cylinders but only 16 **heads** -- NT had been running happily on it with
4465 cyl * 15 heads, but Disk Druid set the geometry for me to 523 cyl * 128
heads (which I failed initially to notice), so of course it failed utterly
to even fully launch LILO on boot attempts.
fdisk, on the other hand, worked like a charm, though I did have to
use "expert mode" and the verify command gave strange and incorrect
results -- although the partitions had been created properly, expert-level
verify was unable to report a 3D address above 1023 cyl so it claimed most
of my partitions overlapped or failed to fit inside the extended one.
Nonetheless, I rebooted and installed as I had intended, with the disk
geometry properly detected and no further problems.
My suggestion, therefore, is that the "workaround" you should apply
is: use fdisk to set your geometry and partition tables, ignoring
verification warnings. :} Of course, please do insure that the partition(s)
where LILO and the kernel will live fit completely under the 1024-cylinder
ceiling, just in case.
Ryan Caveney
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