Mr. Ellison,
Hi. I installed linux on a 13gb ide harddrive. Windows is 7 gigs with
linux 5. works great, but I had to do special parameters to get it to see
my harddrive (maybe it did something that made it work?) Initially used
fips to split the partition. Here is what they are, perhaps it will help:
When installing, get into virtual console 2 by pressing Control Alt F2
I think it was (I don't have the e-mail from Red Hat support (those guys
are awesome!!) because I had to format my harddrive after it worked because
I sort of deleted my linux partitions messing around with root when I
didn't know what I was doing... anyway) then do "cat /proc/pci" to find
the "base address" for the ide controller. for me this was near the bottom
of all the text that scrolled by, the base address being at the top. For
me it was 0x10c0
Then when you get that first screen when booting with the Red hat cd in
the drive to install, type linux ide0=0x10c0 (I'm doing it so that you
must put in your own values) Then continue with the install if it works.
If it doesn't, sorry, but if it does make sure you put "ide0=0x10c0" for
the LILO parameters at the end of the install. Don't know about the 1024
cylinder limit. Good luck, let me know if I was unclear or if they didn't
help.
Powerquest's Bootmagic (about $20 I think) works great too. I have a
Quantum Fireball Cx1 by the way.
Sincerely,
Brandon Dorman
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> At 12:44 PM 1/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'm trying to install RH6.1 on a new system with a 12Gig drive. It
> >had two partitions, thusly:
> >
> > - Partition 1: 8Gig Win98 (almost full)
> > - Partition 2: 4Gig DOS (empty)
> >
> >It appears that I can't install Linux on this machine without trashing
> >the Win98 partition. I nuked the 4Gig partition, but Disk Druid tells
> >me that it can't create any new partitions because the "Boot Partition
> >is Too Big".
> >
> Use Linux fdisk instead of Disk Druid.
>
> >I understand the reason for this is that LILO insists on residing on
> >the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. Lo, that stinketh.
> >
> LILO doesn't care where it is, as long as the BIOS can load it, and
> the kernel. The usual place for LILO is in the MBR, so it gets
> loaded on boot and gives you a choise of what OS to boot. It has
> to use the BIOS to load the kernel for Linux, so your BIOS must be
> able to read the part of the disk that the kernel is on. A lot of
> the older BIOSs have a 1024 cylinder limit.
>
> >Is there any way around this? I'd be happy to install Linux without
> >LILO, and just boot the Linux partition using a floppy. But it won't
> >give me that option.
> >
> Use fdisk instead of Disk Druid, and make a boot floppy. After you
> get the install done, you have a few choises. You can mount your
> Win98 partition, and copy the kernel there. Tell LILO the location,
> (edit /etc/lilo.conf.), and run LILO to tell it the new location.
> (Make sure you mark it a system file in Windows, so it doesn't
> get moved by disk defragmentation tools.)
>
> You can also use a package called Linux-95, if I remember right,
> that lets you good Linux from Windows 95/8. If you cann't find
> it, I'll E-mail you a copy.
>
> Or you can keep booting from a floppy for Linux.
>
> >Regards,
> >Bob Rankin
> >
> Mikkel
>
> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
> for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
>
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