This may be obvious, but is the partition your kernal is stored on (root or boot) located entirely below the 1024th cylinder? (only applies to CHS addressing; LBA modes will always (I believe, don't quote me) map all cylinders below it. You have not indicated how the drive is partitioned; you may be able to change it in BIOS to LBA without repartitioning it. There is also a LILO option to specify geometry which may help. If this is old hat to you (or old red hat), I apologize. It's probably the case that unfortunate limitations like number of cylinders, cluster size, et al are not as bad on Macs as on PC's... >Subject: Setting up Linux on >4GB hard Drives >From: "Marius Schamschula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >every time I boot, so I got a new 6.4GB drive. I took that occasion to go to >upgrade to RedHat 5.2. Now I can't even get to the point of partitioning the >drive for Linux. I'm currently stuck in M$-DOS. The setup floppy disk starts >loading the kernal, but gets about a third of the way through (judging the >the dots), and the exits with the error: kernal load failed. I have had the >same problem with a gateway PII-300 with a 8.4GB drive at work. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
