If you're interested in some reading, the Large-Disk HOWTO explains most of
what you need to know:
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html
The information you really need is at
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-5.html
Basically, if you make a little (a few MB should do) partition *ientirely below
1024 cylinders* to allocate for /boot, you'll be fine: Linux doesn't care
about disk geometry.
Wrote Lord:
> Hey
> I went to create a partition w/ partition magic 4 and it tells me that the
> partition is over the 1024 cyl mark and may not be bootable??? This happened
> before and Redhat 6.0 wouldn't let me install onto a partition.
> Can someone tell me if its possible to install over the 1024 cyl mark
> because I dont want to swap all my data between partitions just to get a
> linux partition up front.
>
> If not I will just install it onto a 800mb HDD I have around and maybe have
> another linux partition that i can store data on.
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