On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Jasmeet S. Virdi wrote:
> Listen to my prob, the thing is that i got a RedHat CD which
> comes with June 2K PCQ, i tried to install Linux on my system, some
> probs arose, it refused to mount "/" on 1GB partition that i created
> using Disk Druid, then i reduced it to 500Mb, then to 100 MB and
> finally to 1MB..., but the probs still there, it wont lemme mount
> it(sayz Partition too big)...however it created 256MB swap space(i
> have 128 MB RAM), similarly it doesn't allow me to mount "/BOOT"
> saying that even 1MB is too big... i have a 17GB HDD, installed Win 98
Aha! welcome to the brand-new world of intelligent Linux installers, (with
dumb error messages aswell). Your hard-disk is in normal mode, operating
with 16,000 odd cylinders, and your BIOS can not boot anything beyond the
first 1024 cylinders. The installer knows that, and thus wont let you make
a /boot or / partition beyond 1024 cylinders. So in your BIOS, set the
hard-disk into LBA mode. Now, probably.. doing this will not let you use
your existing data in partitions which were made when the disk was in
normal mode. So back that up, change the disk access to LBA mode, which
will set the number of cylinders to 2096, and now make your partitions
such that you atleast get to have a 100 MB /boot within the first 1024
cylinders.
Regards,
Sundeep.
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