Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:34:21
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CT50 and 20G drives
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:51:35 +0100
>From: David Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: CT50 and 20G drives
>
>
> >Aha - i'm planning on putting it as a mixed boot 95 (or 98) and linux, so
>I
> >can put lilo on from the desktop and work from there...
>
>I also have a 50CT with a 20GN (well, a 20Gb IBM drive which fits, so
>I assume it's the same model).
This is good news...
>
>I had no trouble in installing and fdisk'ing, formatting the drive
>etc. What I did was _not_ put it in a desktop, but instead used a DOS
>boot floppy and ran fdisk in there to fdisk the first 8Gb (and you
>don't have to leave a space at the end for the hibernation, as the
>bios has hidden it from DOS), and then use a Linux boot floppy (ouch,
>don't ask right now, I'm working on fixing it for the 2.4 kernel I am
>using now) and fdisk the rest of the drive. Of course, make a ~40Mb
>partition between the two for the hibernation data.
>
This was plan (a) - the theory being to format the first 8G for windows and
the rest for linux (so the bios leaves space)
Formatting on the desktop shows a size of 2400 cylinders (ish) which is
about right for 1024 cylinders in the first 8G, so when I fdisked from a
linux rescue disk I zapped everything up to 1020 as dos, everything after
1028 as linux (in an extended partition). Fdisk in windows (back on the lib)
then complains that the partition info is corrupt (though it reads in the
desktop) which I suspect is because the numbers in there don't match what
the bios can handle...hence the need for lilo or grub as a boot handler.
Hmmm maybe I should hunt a mini-linux installation and try and build a lilo
from there?
>Once LILO was installed, everything was fine and happy (although this
>is a single-boot Linux machine not a dual boot). One problem you
>might have is that the kernel for LILO will have to be within the
>first part of the disk (under 8Gb, maybe less), otherwise the BIOS
>calls which LILO makes won't work to load the kernel.
I think the latest lilos cope with more than cylinder 1024 now, grub
certainly does...
>
> >Hibernate isn't happy, either...writes at the expected speed but reads
>very
> >slowly and crashes when it transfers control back.
>
>Hibernate is also ok for me, having used the above method. I'd guess
>that it is reading very slowly because it is not finding the data it
>is expecting - ie. disk is partitioned to use the hibernation area as
>usable disk space. I'd have thought that this is because partitioning
>in a desktop machine would _not_ hide the necessary part of the disk
>from DOS and so ensure that the space is available for hibernation.
>
No, I left space...but even if I hadn't, the system would dump the data
sector by sector, doesn't look at the file structures.
> >The bios is 6.4 - I think I'll try an upgrade to 6.5 and see what
>happens...
>
>I haven't upgraded the bios on my 50, I was going to do that (maybe)
>if things didn't work, but they seem fine, so the original bios should
>be ok.
>
I'll try the lilo route.
Neil
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