On Mon, 22 May 2000, Grigory Pendler wrote:
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|Maybe this one is out of topic, but I'm
|trying for two days, and I never seen that before
|Redhat manuals are not helping
|
|I have 13.2G Seagate ST313032A HD
|80% percent is in use by windows partitions.
|When partitioning during Linux installation
|I can create some file systems (/usr, /home etc.)
|But when trying to create / or /boot i get
|them in red color and it says "Boot Partition is too big..."
|
Probably this comes from a slightly different thinking...
since the XT/PC-bios (and childs up to now ) cannot boot from a cylinder
greater 2^10 = 1024 we introduced a cylinder/head/sector translation
this than offerd us a maximum bootable diskspace of 8 GB.
since HD's nowerdayes bigger Linux (and other OS's) needs to take care that
the partition with the kernel in it don't exceed the 8GB border, or the OS
risks to be unable to boot.
The idear is, that a partition starts at 0. then it grows. this is fine and
usable for booting until the partiton ends before th 8GB.
if it does not, the partition is too big. to store a kernel for booting in
it.
So if the Partition for the Kernel starts later the 8GB *something* ist too
big.
You can help yourself by reducing the partitionsize of a M$-partition the
way that there a view MB available under 8GB. pack that into a partition and
cal these the /boot-Partition.
By the way : what in al the world are You doing with 9GB for M$ ???
|Is there a way to solve this?
|
|Thanks
| Greg
|
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