Re: RH6.1 can't create root partition (fwd)

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

I'm not sure this will address your primary problem, but it might. Most
machines won't boot from a partition on a drive on the secondary
controller (hdc and hdd).  Maybe your simplest solution would be to swap
your secondary master with your primary slave. Don't forget to change
your master/slave jumpers and reconfigure CMOS. I think Win95 will
adjust to it and still regard the (newly) third drive as D:, and you
will certainly solve your bootability problem. As I said, I'm not sure
that will fix your partition creation problem.

On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 12:26:46PM -0500, Janyne M. Kizer wrote:
> 
> I have a computer with three smallish IDE hard drives.  It currently has
> Win95 installed on it and I moved all of my stuff onto two drives leaving
> a 2.2 GB IDE drive completely empty for RH.  Unfortunately, the install
> program refuses to create the root partition on that drive.  It will
> create the swap space on that drive fine but I get an "unknown error"
> every time I try to create the root partition on it.  This drive is the
> secondary master.  Is there a limitation as to what drive can have root
> and/or /boot?  BTW, the first two drives are 1.2 GB each.
> 
> At first I thought that the problem was that RH was seeing 2MB free on my
> DOS D drive and wanted to create the root on the first drive that it saw
> with any free space.  FDisk did not see any free space but Partition Magic
> did so I added that 2 MB to the exisiting FAT32 space on the DOS D drive.
> 
> I would like to install RH on what was DOS E.  I have tried the KDE WS and
> Custom installs and both the graphical and text interfaces.  I did not see
> anything in the Gotchas or in the online manuals relating to this problem
> and I can create other mount points on this drive (/home for example).  
> 
> I'd appreciate any help that you can provide.  Thanks!
> 
> Janyne
> 
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