On Wed 20 March 2002 03:10, you (Scott Krabler) wrote: > Sorry for the last FAT16 note. afaik you need a FAT16 partition to > dual-boot the box.
No, I have Fat32 and it works OK. The problem is (I suppose) somewhere else > Hello everyone, > > I have partitioned my drive with a Windows partition at the beginning and > Linux at the end of the drive(/ = 6Gig, 512swap and about 2Gig /home). I > have tried the text installation method but it also crashes. You should get sure whether the /boot partition is below 1024 cylinder on your hard drive. Yes, I see that you didn't created a /boot partition. I believe that you should. If you boot your system, the linux kernel must be reachable for BIOS - usually BIOS has problems with getting data stored on cylinders behind 1024th one. If you don't know anything about cylinders and such stuff just try to create a small partition (32MB is even too much, althought I made it 64 MB just being happy with my new HUGE disk) as a first partition on your disk. I believe that you will have to create /boot as SECOND partition, but in a such a way that it uses FIRST sectors of the disk.... I am not sure whether Windows treats as disk C the first EXISTING partition, or just first KNOWN partition (FAT). Check it if you have time :-) I wasted^H^H^H^H have spent two night trying to find why my installation of RedHat crashes in unexpected moments, and it turned to be just the problem with kernel files placed above 1024th cylinder. I believe that it is also your case. Bye --Mariusz -- Określ Swoje potrzeby - my znajdziemy ofertę za Ciebie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
