Re: First-time boot stuck at Uncompressing Linux

[Paul Newman pgen com]

Hope this helps clarify things:

One way of getting round the cylinder 1024 issue is to create a (say 10mb) /boot
partition. This partition just contains the files used during boot-up: boot
kernel images (such as vmlinuz-2.12-20) and System.map and so on. Of course
install takes care of this for you if you name the partion's mount point as
/boot and specifiy that that is the boot partition.

Then the next partition can be / and can be as large as you like.

/

aka "the root directory" is of course what you want. Not to be confused with

/root

which is just the home directory of the user "root," contains root's personal
and config filesand need not be on a separate partition

For purposes of speed, the /swap partition should be the first partition on your
disc, but if you have cylinder 1024 problems, only do this if you can fit both
the swap partition (however big you have decided it should be (hint : twice your
RAM) and the partition on which the kernel boot image resides _both_ fit below
cylinder 1024.


Paul





tom_cooper bigfoot com on 01/02/2000 15:47:44

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I dunno.  I've never installed the /boot directory on a partition other
than root.
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>From:    Paul Newman pgen com [SMTP:Paul Newman pgen com]
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>Should that be /boot partition must not cross cylinder 1024 or /root
partition
>must not cross cylinder 1024 ?
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>tom_cooper bigfoot com on 01/02/2000 15:15:08
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>Please respond to redhat-install-list redhat com
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>Subject:  Re: First-time boot stuck at Uncompressing Linux
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>My guess is that you're running into the old "root partition must not cross
>cyl 1024 on the hard disk" problem.
>This is an issue with older systems where LBA mode is not available, CHS is
>the only option, and the disk gemoetry exceeds 1024 cyl.
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>If you can create a partition for root that doesn't cross the 1024
>boundary, you'll be set.
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>I once had an old machine where I wanted to install multiple OSs, and was
>limited by disk geometry.  My fix was to create a small partition later to
>be used as root, then install the "other" operating systems, then install
>RH using the small root partition, and a much larger partition that _did_
>exceed the 1024 limit.
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>This worked very well for me, but YMMV.
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>HTH,
>Tom
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