Felix Miata wrote:
>
> Nathan wrote:
>
> > >Happened to me more than once during beta and RC installs. Prolly an
> > >install script bug. How many partitions are there for it to find?
>
> > 1 windows & 1 ext2
>
> That could mean your EXT2 drive crosses the 1024 cylinder boundary. If
> your PC BIOS does not provide INT13 extensions, you can't boot a
> partition that crosses the boundary. Try making a tiny EXT2 /boot
> partition (I make mine 24 Mb) and a linux swap partition below 1024, the
> rest EXT2, and see if the install will proceed normally.
> --
i'm curious...why would the 1024 cylinder have anything at all to do
with an 8.1 install? that was something specific to the old LILO boot
loader. since the newer versions of LILO no longer suffer from this
problem i fail to see how this would apply.
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