[PLUG] installation help!

[Christopher N. Deckard]

The problem is that the kernel resides on a place on the disk that is
greater than the 1024th cylinder.  Supposedly the brand new version of
lilo fixes this, but I have not tried.  Unless you want to repartition
your entire system (you could get a copy of partition magic 4 or higher
and move your partitions) you should use Mandrake 7.1.  It ceomes with
'grub' which doesn't have some of the limitations that lilo does. 
Mandrake will ask you which boot loader you want to use if you use the
expert mode.  It should configure grub for you.  If not, I've heard it's
"interesting" to configure.

My suggesstion if you want to keep Windows around.  Back up everything,
blow away all your partitions, then create a 2GB partition for Windows
system files/base install, then install Linux letting it create /boot as
the second partition.  If you need more space for Windows, then create a
second Windows parition elsewhere on the disk.

-Chris

Eric Pratt wrote:
> 
> I had this problem when trying to dual boot with 98.  If the first
> partition on the drive is 8GB or larger, then you try to put a /boot after
> that partition, it won't work.  What I ended up doing was installing a 4GB
> FAT32 partition for Win98, then seting up /boot and my linux parition.
> 
> It has been so long since I have done this that I cannot remember all of
> the details of what I did and why I did it, but I may be wrong on that 8GB
> partition size.  It may be 4GB or I may have just made the 4GB partition
> just to screw around, I really can't remember.  The main point is that the
> /boot must be within the first so many GB of the hard drive for some
> reason I don't understand.
> 
> I don't know if that helps, but if you need more help, let me know and
> I'll take a look at my setup (it's on my laptop and I don't have it with
> me right now) and see if I can figure out more of what is going on.
> 
> Eric
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Wiyan Wong wrote:
> 
> > I downloaded Redhat 6.2.  But when I was trying to install it (the step in
> > disk druid), it wouldn't let me create the boot partition (/boot).  Error
> > message: boot partition too big.  The redhat installation guide said the
> > maximum amount for boot partition is 16megs,   ! even tried 1 Meg, but it
> > still gave me the same allocation error.  Can someone help me on this?
> >
> > Wiyan
> >
> >
> > ____________________________________________________
> > The Purdue Linux Users' Group (PLUG) mailing list.
> > plug mailing list  -  plug@csociety.purdue.edu
> > http://csociety.ecn.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/plug
> >
> 
> ____________________________________________________
> The Purdue Linux Users' Group (PLUG) mailing list.
> plug mailing list  -  plug@csociety.purdue.edu
> http://csociety.ecn.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/plug


-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Christopher N. Deckard      |        Lead Web Technician
      cnd@ecn.purdue.edu        |    Engineering Computer Network
     http://triad.dhs.org       |   http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECN/
----------------------------------------------------------------------