Personally, I'd use Partition Magic to crete a small (30-40) megabytes at
the start of the drive and put /boot there. Or use system commander, etc.,
to control booting.
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Subject: Re: NT station and new Linux installation
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> I have a NT station with a new 14 Gig HD. The newly installed HD have
> been set in such a way that 4 gig of space has been left unpartitioned
> and unformated for furutre Linux Installation. The unpartitioned portion
> of the HD is at the end of the two other NTFS partition (c: and d:).
>
> Problem: When I try to set an extended logical partition and install
> linux with a swap an a native Linux partition, I can't reboot the
> machine. The blue NT screen appears with something like "no bootable
> partion found " .....
I believe that to boot from the partition it must be within
the first 1024 cylinders on the drive. With your partition
out in the last 4Gb, you are likely outside of that limit.
> What should I do to successfully partition the last blocks of the HD and
> install Linux (RH6.2) ?
Remove NT and just run Linux ;)
You'll probably have to repartition the drive, or choose
a different partition for Linux.
AFAIK it is not possible to boot a PC from a partition
outside the first 1024 cylinder (not with a normal BIOS
anyway).
