RE: disk druid - partition error

["Gregory Pendler" <megreg techunix technion ac il>]

I think that recently I experienced the same kind of troubles.

If right now you have more then 8Gb of your HD allocated that
means that you asking your machine to boot from partition allocated after
first
8Gb. PC BIOS unable to do that!

I managed to overcome this by freeing one of my partitions, deleting it and
then creating
Linux / (or /boot which can be relatively small) partition.


It works just fine for me:)
Let me know if it worked for you.

Good Luck
	Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Noel Woo [mailto:ozimot hotmail com]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:57 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: disk druid - partition error


hi guys,

tried again to install via dd:

current disk partition

device   requested   actual   type
hda1      4973M       4973M   WIN95 FAT32
hda2      7444M       7444M    0x0f

drive summaries
drive    geom(c/h/s)   total     used        free
hda      1024/255/63    8032M      12417M   4385


-highlight hda2 and pressed ADD

mount point /-----------
size(megs)  600
growable (*)
type linux native
allowable drives (*)
OK

response: /  boot partition too big

-pressed CTRL+ALT+F2
-dmesg
-sh:dmseg:command not found
-cd tmp
-cat syslog

some of the file contents:

hda:ST3130214, 12419MB w/512KB cache, CHS=1024/255/63

Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6>


summary : install still unsuccessful, help






>From: Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>
>Reply-To: redhat-install-list redhat com
>To: redhat-install-list redhat com
>Subject: Re: disk druid - partition error
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:08:02 -0500
>
>Noel Woo wrote:
> >
> > hi guys,
> >
> > installing linux in pc with win95. when adding (ADD) / error message is
> > "BOOT PARTITION TOO BIG" and BOOT PARTITION UNALLOCATED.
> >
> > Please help, thanks in advance for any help.
>
>Try making a small ext2 partition (~5M) first and
>set the mountpoint as "/boot". Your root "/" partition
>is going past the 1024th cylinder so LILO cannot access
>the kernel to boot (BIOS is the problem, newest version
>of LILO should fix this, and be in RedHat 6.3/7.0, it's
>in rawhide already)
>
>If that doesn't work.
>Look at the boot log and see the size of the disk.
>Boot to text mode ands use <ALT>+<F2> for a prompt
>or use <CTRL>+<ALT>+<F2> from the X install.
>then type dmesg and look for a line like:
>
>hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, 9671MB w/466kB Cache, CHS=19650/16/63
>
>Post that, the BIOS settings for the drive,
>and the size of the windows partition(s).
>
>	-Thomas
>
>
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