I just put RH5.0 on a 18GB disk, but I had to get a 2.2.x kernel on it
to have fdisk
work correctly (the stock RH5.0 comes with 2.0.32). I'm using 2.2.13 and
fdisk
works fine with my 18GB disk.
Essentially, I loaded up 5.0 on the hard drive with partitions up to
1024 cylinders.
I then put on 2.2.13 kernel and then created another partition that went
to the end of the
drive and all is well.
Bruce
Ryan Caveney wrote:
>
> 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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