On Thu Aug 10 2000 at 20:23, Matt Marnell wrote:
> sorry if this sounds snotty - I am just providing all the relevant details..
> for my purposes...please take into consideration that the computer that I
> am installing Red Hat 6.2 to is a Compaq Presario 1700 laptop running a
> PIII 750MHz processor with 128MB RAM under a 30 GB Hard Drive...and also
> that it is brand spankin' new - I haven't even received it from compaq
> yet. It's still being built...now that there are more details...does this
> configuration support the boot sector above the 1024th cylinder?
You almost certainly need to deal with this issue. While it does
depend on the BIOS, it's a compaq (big mistake, I wouldn't touch
them with a 10ft pole, especially their desktops) - so more than
likely it has no real on-board bios anyway.
It's no big deal anyway. Just make /boot/ on /dev/hda5 as the first
logical partition within /dev/hda1 as an extended partition, thus
guaranteeing that it is located within cyl 1024. Alternatively,
make /boot/ in /dev/hda1 as a primary, then use hda[234] as you
please.
At the end of the day you want it to work. Reliably.
Cheers
Tony
