Hello!
I had asked list-members for help a while ago, regarding
why I may have had difficulties setting up a new 10 Gb
hard drive into a dual-boot configuration, with RedHat 6.0
and Windows95. I actually wasn't able to even boot a DOS
floppy disk, after using Linux fdisk--or DOS FDISK-- to
create a FAT16 partition.
I remember responses guessing that there was something wrong
with my floppy disk drive or the DOS boot disk.
Recently, while making the old, smaller hard drive Windoze-only,
I noted that I AM able to boot from a DOS diskette; I went ahead
with the whole windoze install.
So, to reiterate symptoms:
If my hda1 is type 6 (FAT16) because I created it with fdisk,
the DOS boot-disk won't boot; there is only some floppy drive
activity, and then some hard drive activity, and then nothing.
If I delete hda1, I can boot with my DOS boot-disk, and use DOS's
FDISK utility to create the partition instead. However, at this
point, I can't re-boot using the DOS boot-disk, to format the
new partition. Also, if I return to Linux fdisk, I notice the
partition which DOS FDISK created doesn't "end on a correct
cylinder" or something to that effect; forgive me for
not making a note of the error message!
So I wonder, is this problem arising because my new hard disk has
a different geometry? The old disk has 1575 cylinders, whereas the new
one has 19485 cylinders.
I had intended to create a dual-boot configuration on the larger hard drive,
but I'm presently swapping the hard drives--Windows95 on the small one, and
RedHat 6.0 kernel 2.2.16 on the other. This works for the time being,
but I'd still prefer to have a dual-boot set-up on the larger hard drive.
btw, I run RedHat 6.0 and kernel 2.2.16, on the new hard drive, that is.
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det spelar ingen roll -- Swedish for: "it doesn't matter."
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