Re: partition

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:05:32AM -0500, Todd Tibbetts wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2001 08:27 pm, you wrote:
> 
> > I tried to install RH 7.1 to a Dell 8000 laptop which has been installed
> > w2k OS. Although the hda has 4511 M free space as follows, I was not
> > able to partition the free space in hda:
> >
> > hda [3890/255/63]  30514(total)  26003(used)   4511(free)
> >
> > I've got an error: "partition > 1024 cylinders" when I tried to allocate
> > 16 M to /boot in hda. And I've got an error "No free primary" when I
> > tried to allocate 250 M swap in hda. The hda was ticked in Allowable
> > Drives. It was weird to me, what was the problem?
> 
> I likewise am no expert, but I did run into this same problem.  For some 
> reason the disk druid that shipped with Seawolf would not let me create a 
> boot partition above 1024 cylinders.  What I ended up doing was running the 
> install from Mandrake 8.0 up until the point that it finishes the 
> partitioning.  Then I aborted and ran the Redhat install.  It recognized the 
> new (and above 1024) partitions and complained about them, but it still let 
> me use them and everything worked fine.  I suppose your mileage may vary, 
> however, since I don't know exactly what determines whether a system is 
> capable of booting to a partition on a cylinder above 1024.
> 
> Todd
Use fdisk not disk druid and use the lba32 parameter in lilo.conf rather
than linear.
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