On Tue Aug 29 2000 at 22:22, Forrest Taylor wrote:
> I believe that LILO must be installed under the 1024th cylinder. You may want
> to look into that.
No, not lilo.
Most BIOSs cannot boot from anything beyond cylinder 1024. It is
the kernel image in /boot that is needed in an area below cyl 1024
(lilo needs to "map" the physical location on the disk of the kernel
boot image into /boot/map).
But I think that lilo can now handle booting from anywhere on the
drive, independent of what the BIOS is or is not capable of. So
this issue is destined to go away. (Not completely however,
sometimes BIOSs are simply "non-compliant", like the hassles with
some motherboards when detecting the amount of physical ram that is
present in the system).
> Yuzz wrote:
>
> > Use partition magic first in order to create and delete partition...
Good advice, but you need to use it to move everything "up" the disk
to make space for a small 1 or 2 cylinder linux /boot partition
right at the start of the disk.
> > Li Bing wrote:
> >
> > > Hello there:
> > > I have an installation problem.
> > >
> > > My computer equipment is PIII-600, 128MB RAM, 27GB HD, 32MB Display
> > > card.
> > >
> > > The hard drive was partitioned into 2 partitions before I was trying
> > > to install RedHat 6.2, and the partition sizes are 2GB(FAT) and
> > > 15GB(NTFS). I planned to partition the rest of my hard drive into a root
> > > partition in order to install Linux but Disk Druid informed me that "The
> > > / is too big!" then refused to create any partition for me. Then, I made
> > > the / partition to 2GB, Disk Druid still responsed same error message.
> > > Anything wrong with my installation procedure?
Cheers
Tony
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