See comments below: > > 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
Thanks for the help Mariusz, but I have one question for you, why is it that My old RedHat 5.2 installs fine with the same partition setup? If this is a BIOS problem, shouldn't it crash as well? If I create a boot partition it is going to mess up my Windows 98 partition which I already have in the beginning of the drive, right? Do you think Red Hat 7.2 would work better, since it has GRUB? My best, - Bjarki > > 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 _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
