"Frank C. Brants" wrote:
>
> At 03:47 PM 01/06/2000 , Bruce Kall wrote:
>
> The easiest thing to do is to create a small /boot partition before
> cylinder 1024 ...
>
> [fcbrants@w2 fcbrants]$ df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6 4040000 1365216 2469556 36% /
> /dev/sda1 15522 2699 12022 18% /boot
> [fcbrants@w2 fcbrants]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
>
> HTH
>
This is probably true, but fdisk under 2.0.32 does not let you create
partitions part 1024 (at least for me with RH5)
Bruce
> Franko
>
> >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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