On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 12:52:10PM -0800, Christian DeKonink wrote: > OK I've been hearing that flame recently, maybe I'll take listen to it > more. > > The problem is that my disk geometry is set to 240 heads 63 sectors and > 1299 cylinders. I would rather not change this manually. > > My swap part starts at 566 and ends at 601. > My linux partition starts at cylinder 602 and ends at 1299. > I guess that the boot block was installed at some point beyond the > 1024th cylinder. > > Is that what's happening?
well, kind of. IIRC LILO cannot boot from partition that either begins or ends after 1024 cyl. That's what i'd read somewhere.. I'm not an expert :-) > During installation I was asked if i wanted to create a Linux FS at the > beginning of the free space or at the end. By choosing install at the > end I was able to make the partition larger. Is this because by > installing at the beginning of the free space it could only use up to > 1024 cylinders? I assume you have some important stuff before 566cyl. that you do not want to touch. There is a workaround. Make the partitions look like this: a small (30 megs. would be sufficient, i think) '/' partition only for booting and then swap and /usr partitions, in any order. (you can make /home a symlink to /usr/home) regards Marcin -- --------------------------------- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------
