Re: /boot partition too big ( 1 MB !!)

[John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>]

On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Billy R. Nordyke Sr. wrote:
> Hi Alessandro,
> 
> Don't see an answer to your message so I'll try.  Try making your linux
> boot partition 16 meg or so as the very first partition on the drive. 
> Then create your windows partition and the linux partition.  I t should
> work that way.  It seems that there is a limit over which linux can't go
> back to install.   If you can access the archives there have been several
> discussions of this by eople much more knowledgeable than I.   This
> worked for me on a 30 gig harddrive though.
>
There was an answer -- the answer was that his /boot
partition was probably OVER the 1024 cylinder limit, and he
needed to move it to UNDER the 1024 cylinder limit. :-)
	John