Hello Sabrina,
The problem you face is not due to the 1024 limitation or
LILO. I believe you have done the partitioning using "DISK Druid" tool.
Instead use the FDISK tool available in the same install screen and
manually create the linux native & swap partitions.You will have to know
how to do this but that is the only way. Find out. I am giving you some
guidelines. You will have to experiment and read about fdisk to feel
confident.
Inside the fdisk prompt you can type "m" for help. Then "n" for
new partition. Give the starting and ending cylinders. You will have to
calculate the number of cylinders that equal your size requirement.
Generally on a 40GB HDD in LBA mode 1000 cylinders roughly equals 8GB.
Once you have created your native partition create your swap partition,
but this time with a small change. start with "n" then type(primary (or)
logical), size(start cylinder & end cylinder) and finally you will have
to change this partition's system ID. For this use "t" and then enter
the value "82" which is for a Linux swap partition. At any time you can
press "p" to print the new partition table(However at this time nothing
is committed to disk"). Finally when you are sure that your requirements
are fine and there are no overlaps/conflicts type "w". This will write
the partition table to disk.
Now reboot the machine and get back to the screen where you have
to choose between "Disk Druid and FDISK". The partitions you created
must now be shown in the top half of the screen. Choose DD and give only
the mount point("/") for your new Linux native partition. Proceed to
format it and you are on your way.
Do some experimenting with FDISK. Once linux is installed you
cant use DD and have to depend only on /sbin/fdisk which is an
extremely powerful tool.
Again Starting from RH 7.1(specifically LILO 21.x) onwards the
1024 VOODOO of LILO has been solved . If there still is a limitation it
is not with LILO but with your BIOS. But since your BIOS recognises your
HDD for what it is(40GB) that problem too does not arise. So this
procedure in your case can be applied to both RH 7.1 and RH 8.0. Lilo
is NOT the problem.
Yours truly,
G.Sriram.
BTW jiju Thomase's solution still does not work for me(copying
pap-secrets - although I noticed that no entry was made for the
authentication). I am using KPPP without problems. Error 16 still occurs
with wvdial.
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Hi,
Please help me.
I have a 40GB hard disk.
I have installed windows millenium in C drive and
windows XP in E drive. Now I want to install Red Hat
Linux 7.1 in G drive.
After making linux native and swap partition and
assigning mount point, when I click next there is a
error message :
There are currently unallocated partition present in
the list of requested partitions. The unallocated
partitions are shown below, along with the reason they
are not allocated,
boot partition > 1024 cylinders
How can I install Red hat linux beyond 8GB partition?
Will Red hat Linux 8.0 solve the problem?
Thanks.
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