On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 02:59:21AM -0700, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>
> Got a problem for you, first i'll describe it in brief, i have a
> intel chipset 815e motherboard and a samsung 40gb harddisk. i've
> installed windows 98, windows 2000 and redhat linux 7.1 on it..
> while installing redhat linux i made my /boot partition of 25 mb
> after the installation at the end point i got a message as
> follows :
> "An error occured while installingthe boot loader.
> The error reported was: warning: /dev/hdb is not on first disk.
> warning: device 0*0348 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit.
> Fatal: sector 62043632 too large for linear mode (try
> "lba32" instead )"
>
> I thought the problem might be of 1024 cylinder limit, so i made
> a primary partition above my c: drive of 25 mb but it didnt work
> .. plz note my harddisk is primary slave..i also want to install
> suse on in but it too gives errors..at present i'm forced to use
> loadlin to boot to linux..
>
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There is nothing wrong in booting with Loadlin. In a system like
yours with Win-9x, Win-2k, RH-7.1 and intending to install SuSE,
it is best done with Loadlin.
a. There would be no 1024-voodoo problems.
b. No anti-virus warnings of corrupt MBR
c. No need for sectioning below 1024 cylinders
You may fall short of primary partitions for loading boot image
in the first sector of each partition, if you depend upon disk-
druid to do the job. An IDE drive can take a max of 4 primary
partitions, and in a set-up like yours you can at best make 3,
with one large extended partition with numerous logicals for all
the sub-partitions that would be needed.
Stick to loadlin, no harm done. Or, you would have to migrate to
grub.
If you believe that LILO is the "proper" boot loader which is to
be used in Linux boxes, you should remember that Loadlin was
jointly developed by Hans Lerman with Werner Almesberger (the
author of LILO).
Bish.
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