RE: RedHat 6.1 installation reboots before writing partitions

[Stuart Mace <Stuart Mace RCP co uk>]

> Ok, I've been spending a little time at the RedHat site.  
> First, I don't know
> where the "8GB limit" came from.  

neither do I, tho from experience I know it exists. 

> The only thing I've found is that LILO has a
> limitation imposed by the BIOS that says 
> everything in /boot must be below cylinder 1023 
> It also mentions that some newer BIOSes don't 
> have this 1023 limitation, so it's not LILO 
> but the BIOS.

my boot partition has successfully been anything from 1GB to 5GB into the
drive.  

> Second, that same RH solutions database article 
> says that a work-around for the
> 1023 cylinder problem is to not use LILO 
> but to use LOADLIN or something similar.

Resulted in the same problem in my case (linux partition not being detected)


> since the install dies before the partitions are even formatted.  There
was 

I usually use Partition Magic to format my Linux drives, as the formatter
that comes with Mandrake usually incorrectly formats my drive, resulting in
a "Bad" partition table.  I found a similar problem with RH6.1

Sorry I can't be of more assistance.

Stu.



Stuart Mace wrote:

> As I remember, fdisk for Windows creates partitions at the start of
> unpartitioned space, unless you specify otherwise.
>
> tf, If you create your boot partition first, this should ensure it is
under
> the 8GB limit.
>
> regards,
>
> Stu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mgh520 yahoo com [mailto:mgh520 yahoo com]
> Sent: 09 May 2000 14:23
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: RedHat 6.1 installation reboots before writing partitions
>
> Thanks for the info Stuart and Leonard.  Do you know how I can ensure that
> my
> boot partition is below 8 gig?  I have one 4 gig NTFS partition, but when
I
> create the boot partition, will it necessarily go right after the 4 gig
> partition?
>
> Leonard, you suggested trying a rescue disk.  I'm not sure what you mean
by
> that
> or what to do with it.
>
> I happened to look at NTs disk administrator and I noticed that the
> partitions
> were indeed created by the RedHat install, so I guess it's dying right
after
> creating the partitions.  Interestingly though, if I rerun the RedHat
> install,
> it does not see the partitions that were created last time, only the NTFS
> partition.
>
> Mike
>
> Stuart Mace wrote:
>
> > I have an Athlon ASUS K7M mobo with UDMA/66 enabled.  Granted, it is on
a
> > Mandrake system, but I've had it running RH6.1 previously without any
> > difficulty.
> >
> > If Leonards suggestions do not solve your problem, I'm afraid I have no
> idea
> > what is causing your difficulties.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Stu.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leonard den Ottolander [mailto:l j den ottolander freeler nl]
> > Sent: 08 May 2000 23:05
> > To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Subject: Re: RedHat 6.1 installation reboots before writing partitions
> >
> > Date forwarded:         8 May 2000 18:47:03 -0000
> > From:                   "Mike Hansen" <mgh520 yahoo com>
> > To:                     <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> > Subject:                RedHat 6.1 installation reboots before writing
> > partitions
> > Date sent:              Mon, 8 May 2000 13:46:25 -0500
> > Forwarded by:           redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Send reply to:          redhat-install-list redhat com
> >
> > > I'm trying to install RedHat 6.1 from CD onto an AMD Athlon system
with
> > > an FIC SD11 motherboard and a 10.2 GB Western Digital Caviar
> > > UDMA/66 drive.  It seems I have a few things working against me here.
> > > The hardware compatibility list suggests that Athlon motherboards may
> > > be incompatible and a quick search of the mailing list archives
suggests
> > > that UDMA/66 may be the problem.
> > >
> > > I am using the graphic installation, custom install.  Right after I
> define
> > > the partitions I want and click next, the GUI goes away and I'm left
at
> > > a console that says the system is being shut down.  There is no
> > > indication of any errors before that, except a missing security policy
> > file
> > > for X which other postings here have said is no big deal.  If I use
the
> > text
> > > installation, at the same point I get kicked out of the install
program
> > but I
> > > see a signal 11 error.
> > >
> > > I don't understand the UDMA/66 problem.  Is my motherboard forcing
> > > UDMA/66 and Linux cannot access the drive because of it?  I have all
of
> > > the bios settings relating to my drive set to AUTO DETECT, so it is in
> > > control.  I suppose I could try to drop the drive down to UDMA/33 and
> see
> > > what happens, but I'd rather not impact NT performance just for the
sake
> > > of having Linux on the same drive.
> >
> >  You don't have to worry about a performance loss because of using
> > UDMA/33MHz=MB/s. The WD drive you have won't saturate the interface.
> > For the moment UDMA/66 only offers a theoretical advantage over
> > UDMA/33. If you think you can solve the problem this way, try it!
> >  By the way, can you access the drive using a rescue disk? Do you set a
> > boot partition below 8GB?
> >
> > > Does anyone have any ideas on what I could try next?  I've noticed
that
> > > the 6.1 installation can be a bit flakey but this fails at the same
> exact
> > > place everytime.  The other thing I should mention is that I already
> have
> > > Windows NT 4.0 workstation installed (on an NTFS partition) on the
same
> > > drive and I'm attempting to install Linux to unpartitioned free space.
> I
> > am
> > > using the lastest boot image from the RedHat errata that says it fixes
a
> > > problem in recognizing NTFS partitions.  Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
> >  I am sorry I can't be of any more help with the problem. I have no
> > experience with Athlons nor UDMA/66...
> >
> >  Good luck!
> >  Leonard.
> >
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