> as I said try making ht efirst partiton less than 8 gig,
8G is basically the wrong thing to think of. it happens to be
the limit of bios accessibility when using LBA remapping, but
in other cases, the limit can be as low as .5G. the right way
to think of it is cylinders: bios reads blocks at up to 1K cyl.
there are two simple, universal solutions to deal with this.
one is to simply make your / always fit under 1K cyl. this
can be a little tight, depending on the apparent geometry
of your disk (and/or how much you like to install; I tend to use
.8G / partitions, and never split /usr off.) the other solution,
is to simply put /boot within 1K cyl. I usually go with a 10M
/boot, right at the head of the disk. it's annoying that this is
the fastest part of the disk, and only used once, but then again,
it's a miniscule fraction of the disk anyway. obviously, /boot
can reside anywhere within 1K cyl. also, it means you need to
keep your kernels there, which is the way RH sets up, but the kernel
Makefile, by default, sticks kernels in /. you can configure this
by uncommenting "#INSTALL_PATH=/boot" in the base Makefile.
regards, mark hahn.
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