Messages in this thread | | | From | sinbuxs@typeb ... | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 1999 05:15:36 +0000 | Subject | Re: 2.2.0-final problems |
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from:Senthil Rajan
In <m1056Qj-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu> Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
>> have lilo color installed with 4 entries, 3 for linux and one for >> win98. Now everything gone, lilo complains: device 0303 has starting >> cylinder > 1024, I tried linear and I tried installing lilo in >> /dev/hda1 (I don't have win98 anymore), nothing helped me.
> Your root partition goes over 1024 cylinders - before by luck your kernels > landed in the area the PC BIOS can handle - this time it didnt
>> [Help is badly needed, I recommended my friend to install linux in >> his new PC, I don't want him to face this pbm in the beginning!]
> Keep the root partition below cylinder 1024.
>>>>Not root, but boot (mounted in /boot :-) of course ... <<<<<<<
Do I need to create a filesystem under /dev/hda1 (first partition, 521 MB) and move everything under /boot to /dev/hda1 and mount it on /boot?
Is my following lilo setting is correct?
boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda3 Image=vmlinuz-2.2.0-final label=linux
I can't move my root from /dev/hda3 -> /dev/hda1 because /opt is in /dev/hda2 and I have only one hard disk. Actually I tried this before and LILO does't understand the keys at all (if I press ENTER it says **interrupt**) and still it complained the device 0303 has cyls>1024.
When I run lilo, is it mandatory that /boot must be in /dev/hda1?
Is there a simple way to redefine my root partition?
Is it possible to boot from a logical partition, I prefer to repartition /dev/hda1 into two: one for boot and one for win98.
Thanks & Brdgs Senthil Raj -
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