"Karnos, John G" wrote:
>
> I just installed Linux on a SCSI only machine and it is running, though I've
> got a resolution problem at the moment. Alan had told me that the only real
> requirement was that the / "root" slice had to be withing the first 1024
> blocks of the hard drive. Once I moved the install to the first partion, it
> worked just fine. You may want to revisit your install procedures and look
> at that, too.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 6:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux
>
> On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > Another problem I am having is when I try to run KDE ( and I might be
> > doing it wrong to begin with...) is that when I type kde from the prompt
> > it trys to load and gives me "Xserver could not load" and dumps me back
> > to the prompt.
> >
> You're going about it all wrong....type "startx" (minus quotes) to
> load Xwindows and KDE should be the default Window Manager. :-)
> Also, you only need to put your LILO in /dev/hda. Also, you may have
> a problem due to the fact that the "off the shelf" kernel doesn't
> support booting from SCSI, which may explain why it's trying to write
> more than just LILO to the "C:" drive.
> John
John....glad you got it running, but you are mis-quoting me.
"the / "root" slice had to be withing the first 1024 blocks of the hard
drive"
not quite what I said, which was:
"I make my /boot partition 16-24 megs in size."
"your /boot partition needs to be totally located within the first 1024
cylinders of whatever drive that it is on"
First off, it's the first 1024 cylinders, not blocks (what's a block?).
Secondly, I was referring to a /boot partition, not the / "root"
partition. A boot partition is where the kernal is stored. If you
don't create a distinct and seperate /boot partition, then /boot will
automatically be created during the installation process as a
subdirectory of your / "root" partition. One reason to use a /boot
partition is it is small and can be located before the much larger /
"root" partition on the disc. When placed like that it is likely to not
cross the 1024 cylinder boundary even if placed at the beginning of the
second half of a 10 gig drive, which is why I recommended that you
create one. You probably didn't to move anything, just partition the
last half of your drive like I originally recommended.
Alan
Alan
