On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Adrian Thompson wrote: : Hello, : : Linux fdisk doesn't see past 1024 cylindars, I have a 20.4GB HD which : requires over 2000 cylindars. As well I have win95 on hda1, I want to : put linux on hda2, however lilo doesn't sit well in a FAT32, or screws : up because of the HD size.
fdisk works fine here with drives having cyl > 1024. cfdisk, OTOH ... The caveat is that the bootable partition must lie within the first 1024 cylinders (specifically, the boot kernel must be somewhere between cyl 1 and 1024). This is easy to solve: Make a small (8 MB) partition and mount it on /boot. This partition should start at cyl 1. Mark that partition aws bootable and voila; you've got a working system. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
