Re: [expert] system commander

[Marcos Dione]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Mage Grimau wrote:

> Actually, a 7M partition works great for /boot.
> I can't get fdisk to make a smaller one or I'd try it,
> since /boot only seems to be using about 2M.

that's because fdisk creates parts bounded to cyls. a lone cyl has
about 7Mb in the last ide hds, due to the geometry. someday i'll try to
make a non-cyl-bounded part and see if it works...

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Re: [expert] system commander

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 04:56:11PM -0500, Lorne Schachter wrote:




Lorne, would you please turn off HTML mail for lists, including this one.

Do you mean block or cylinder? Linux' boot partition has to be at
cylinders all less than 1024.


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Re: [expert] system commander

[Mage Grimau]

Actually, a 7M partition works great for /boot.
I can't get fdisk to make a smaller one or I'd try it,
since /boot only seems to be using about 2M.

--- M Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You need to create a 20Mb partition that resides
> below the 1024th cylinder.  
> When installing Linux, mount this small partition as
> /boot.
> 
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> HTH,
> Matt
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Re: [expert] system commander

[M Thompson]

You need to create a 20Mb partition that resides below the 1024th cylinder.  
When installing Linux, mount this small partition as /boot.


HTH,
Matt


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[expert] system commander

[Lorne Schachter]

I'm trying to set up system commander to select my os when I boot (I've
got to use Windows for work occasionally).  My root partition starts
at block 1600 (which is greater that 1023), so everyone has a problem with
it.  Any ideas?
Thanks,
Lorne
 
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[expert] System Commander and Drakx

[silkythreads]

Can't get Mandrake 70-2 to boot using System Commander.

During install on drive-XX, I installed lilo to /boot.

I configured SysCdr to look at the /boot partition - my drive # 2.

When starting to boot, I get the deadly "LI".  I made sure that the

partition was a bootable partition in SysCdr's setup.  

Is this a problem with the BIOS settings and can I make SysCdr

ignore the BIOS or am I completely lost on this ??

My BIOS has a "boot in this order" function and this drive is

not the first in the list but SysCdr should be able to handle that.

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My Drakx (DrakeConf) comes up in text mode.  I really liked the GUI,
I just upgraded from 70 to 70-2.  I want my GUI.  How do I get it back
??

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