On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Baruch Even wrote:
> * Yoni Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010611 21:39]:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I have an 20G HD, there are already two partitions for windows (FAT32).
> > I want to install RH 6.2 Server on different partition, when i try to create
> > new 4G 'Linux native' partition under mount point /, i get an error message
> > "Boot partition too big", this message appeared also when the size of this
> > partition is 1M ?!.
> >
> > I know that RH 7 will probably solve this problem, but i need the 6.2
> > version.
> >
> > any idea for a workaround ?
>
> The only workaround is to use a boot loader other than lilo, grub
> supposedly can do this.
>
> The problem is that the boot partition for lilo needs to be in the first
> 1024 cylinders (if memory serves me right), the solution I use for this
> is to have a small 15MB boot partition (/boot) and the rest as /
> (actually I'm splitting it otherwise, but it should work for you).
Later versions of lilo (as the one from RedHat 7.0) have removed this
limitation.
Another alternative is to boot from a floppy (or from dos - through
loadlin).
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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