Re: Boot partition too big
Hi On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:04:57PM -, Yoni Cohen wrote: Hi list, I have an 20G HD, there are already two partitions for windows (FAT32). I want to install RH 6.2 Server on different partition, when i try to create new 4G 'Linux native' partition under mount point /, i get an error message Boot partition too big, this message appeared also when the size of this partition is 1M ?!. In most cases, the lilo that comes with RH 6.2, at least the latest updates of it, has a working lba32 option. Just make sure, that you disable the 'linear' option of it during install - it's on by default, and the two (lba32 and linear) conflict, and make lilo do not install itself at all. I know that RH 7 will probably solve this problem, but i need the 6.2 version. any idea for a workaround ? Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] didi = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot partition too big
* Yoni Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010611 21:39]: Hi list, I have an 20G HD, there are already two partitions for windows (FAT32). I want to install RH 6.2 Server on different partition, when i try to create new 4G 'Linux native' partition under mount point /, i get an error message Boot partition too big, this message appeared also when the size of this partition is 1M ?!. I know that RH 7 will probably solve this problem, but i need the 6.2 version. any idea for a workaround ? The only workaround is to use a boot loader other than lilo, grub supposedly can do this. The problem is that the boot partition for lilo needs to be in the first 1024 cylinders (if memory serves me right), the solution I use for this is to have a small 15MB boot partition (/boot) and the rest as / (actually I'm splitting it otherwise, but it should work for you). -- Baruch Even http://baruch.ev-en.org/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot partition too big
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Baruch Even wrote: * Yoni Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010611 21:39]: Hi list, I have an 20G HD, there are already two partitions for windows (FAT32). I want to install RH 6.2 Server on different partition, when i try to create new 4G 'Linux native' partition under mount point /, i get an error message Boot partition too big, this message appeared also when the size of this partition is 1M ?!. I know that RH 7 will probably solve this problem, but i need the 6.2 version. any idea for a workaround ? The only workaround is to use a boot loader other than lilo, grub supposedly can do this. The problem is that the boot partition for lilo needs to be in the first 1024 cylinders (if memory serves me right), the solution I use for this is to have a small 15MB boot partition (/boot) and the rest as / (actually I'm splitting it otherwise, but it should work for you). Later versions of lilo (as the one from RedHat 7.0) have removed this limitation. Another alternative is to boot from a floppy (or from dos - through loadlin). -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
