On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, HELMUT LEINFELLNER wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote: : > : > On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, HELMUT LEINFELLNER wrote: : > : > : Hi ! : > : : > : Just wanted to let you know that I can finally run both Win95 and Linux : > : on different partitions. The key to this was to put the DOS partitions : > : FIRST. : > : The only thing still to solve right now is this: : > : DOS fdisk gives: : > : : > : 1 PRI DOS YESHUA 1000 FAT16 100% : > : 2 EXT DOS 1000 100% : > : 3 Non-DOS 64 23% : > : 4 Non-DOS 2047 100% : > : : > : Partition 3 + 4 are Linux swap and Linux native, respectively. : > : DOS fdisk recognises the primary DOS partition (1), but not the extended : > : one (2). (This one is split into 4 logical partitions, each 250 MB : > : size.) : > : : > : Can anyone help ? : > : > I'm hopping into this thread, so if I missed something from before, : > sorry. : > : > What are the cylinder numbers on partition 2? If you used NORMAL : > mapping, which I seem to recall you did, DOS isn't going to be pleased : > with a partition that has cylinder numbers > 1024. : : I forgot to add my question :) : : Does this mean I can't use two DOS paritions if the first one is already : 1000 MB big ? : : Hemut
Well, maybe. Here's the problem, as I understand it. DOS doesn't like partitions that cross the 1024 cylinder boundary - if your partition starts at, say, cylinder 950 and ends at cylinder 1200, DOS will see cylinders 950-1024, and that's it. It won't see any partitions that begin on a cylinder greater than 1024. So, if your first partition is using up all the cylinders to 1024, you're out of luck. (What I was asking in my last email is which cylinder does each partition begin and end on ... if you're running normal mode you're alomost certainly bumping into the 1024 limit). -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
