Are you trying to create boot partition beyond 1024 cylinders or 8 GB. In that
case it will cause problems. This is due to bios limitation.
Try rearranging partiotion scheme so that the boot partiton is in first 8 GB.
HTH
Bye
Shridhar
AKASH VERMA wrote:
> i have created three partitions 1) 2
> GB(FAT) for winnt 2) 2 GB(NTFS) for data 3) 2GB(FAT) for win2000 rest
> around 10 gb is unallocated. while trying to install linux i tried to create
> linux native partition of 2000 mb but allocation was unsuccesful reason:-
> boot partition too large.
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