Re: HD installation problems...

["Jeff Hogg" <tastin catchnet net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad <newbie capstone net au>
To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 8:49 PM
Subject: HD installation problems...


>I have a 20Gb IDE Seagate HD that I am having a lot of trouble installing
>RedHat 6.2 on. It is an ATA-66 HD but I am only using it in UDMA33 mode
with
>a 40 wire cable. The drive's native configuration is  39693 tracks x 16
>heads x 63 sectors and I have invoked LBA mode in the BIOS so it is now
2490
>cylinders x 255 heads x 63 sectors  I have formatted it with Win95 with one
>large partition and there are no bad sectors.
>
>When I start the RedHat installation and get to Disk Druid I set:
>
>/    1004Mb
>/usr    18324Mb
>/swp    203Mb
>
>It seems to be having some difficulty accessing the drive and I am guessing
>that the drive geometry may be unsuitable for Linux.  I am aware of the
1024
>cylinder maximum for '/' and I would have thought that as '/' is only a
>small number it would be well within the 1024 cylinder limitation. I have
>created 2 x 8Gb and 1 x 2.3Gb partitions instead of the one large one and
it
>appears to work OK. I have also installed the HD into a different PC with
>different motherboard etc and it is still the same.
>
  Its not the / partition that needs to be under 1024, its specifically the
/boot partition.  You should make a partition for /boot that starts and ends
under the 1024th cylinder.  /boot contains the kernel and is what LILO will
need to be able to "see" when the computer boot.s  The rest of the linux
install can be as far outside of that as you like.  Hope this helps.

Jeff Hogg