Hello again,
everything works! Now my Linux-computer starts from HD and can
communicate (by using its ethernet-card). Thanx to everyone who helped me
(especially: Stephen Gregory, Sten Anderson, Craig Sanders, Laurent
Picouleau. I hope I didn't forget anyone...).
My last problem I had (the one I just solved...):
I used the MINIX-partition and "told" fstab to mount it as /boot,
started lilo (with the 'linear' option integrated in lilo.conf) and
everything went fine.
THANK YOU
> >5. I'm happy because everything works (now without start-disk)
>
> Soon, that will be the case.
NOW this IS the case :-))
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> Von: Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: 'Fabian Knittel' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Betreff: RE: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM
> Datum: Samstag, 17. Januar 1998 23:33
>
> >From : Fabian Knittel[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hello
>
> >> 2°) I don't think that your BIOS support lba.
> >
> >I don't either... :-)
> >
> >> If I'm right you'll have to
> >> declare your disk as having 16 heads, 63 sectors, 3308 cylinders
> >> because lilo relies on the BIOS to access the kernel and your BIOS
> >> don't know how to handle more than 16 heads.
> >
> >okay...
>
> First, try what Craig Sanders suggested : add linear in your lilo.conf.
> I've never used it but according to lilo's doc it should work and it's
the
> simplest solution. What I said is useful for an installation or a
complete
> reinstallation.
>
> >> The only annoyance
> >> will be to ensure that the kernel resides in the 1024 firs cylinders :
> >> just create a (small) partition there and mount it as /boot or a
slightly
> >> larger one and mount it as / .
> >
> >But all of my HD-space is already in use! From where should I get the
> >'small' partition, that also has to reside in the first 1024 cylinders?
Oh!
>
> Why not use the Linux/MINIX partition (dev/hda2) ? It doesn't have to
> be at the very beginning of the disk, just somewhere in the first 1024
> cylinders...
I didn't realize how big 1024 cylinders actually are. I thought this would
only be a small amount of space (smaller than the space my swap takes
away).
>
> >I've got an idea, what if I just kill this unused Linux/MINIX-partition
and
> >the swap-partition and 'switch them round' (so that there is a small
space
> >of 1024 cylinders infront of swap left). It would (probably) look
something
> >like this:
>
> > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> >/dev/hda1 * 1 1 3 8064 83 Linux native
<--
> >will be mounted as /boot, should I mark it with 'bootable' ?
>
> No need to mark it bootable. Where lilo resides is to be bootable. So,
> if you put it in the MBR, no partition need to be bootable but all of
them
> can be so without problem regarding lilo linux or the BIOS.
>
> >/dev/hda2 4 4 29 50368+ 82 Linux swap <--
now
> >my swap is here
> [...]
> >I'll have to tell Linux to look at hda2 for a swap partition... probably
in
> >fstab, right? But can I just change the partition while the system is
> >running? I couldn't find any notes on this.
>
> 1°) create a swap file (/somewhere/whatever)
> 2°) ativate it (swapon /somewhere/whatever)
> 3°) deactivate swap partition (swapoff /dev/hda1)
> 4°) play with fdisk (or cfdisk)
> 5°) *Initialize the swap partition*
> 6°) edit fstab, lilo.conf
> 7°) lilo (after reboot, you can delete the swap file if you want)
>
> If you'd have more ram 1°) and 2°) wouldn't be necessary
>
> >Is the following procedure possible:
> >
> >1. I change the partition tabel as shown above, using the cfdisk-utility
> >2. I edit fstab and correct the data in there
>
> Not useful if you take /dev/hda2 as /boot
>
> >3. I rerun lilo
>
> Don't forget to move te content of /boot to /dev/hda2 and then to
> mount it on /boot before (you should add it to fstab BTW)
>
> >4. I change HD-info (16 heads, 63 sectors, 3308 cylinders) in BIOS
>
> FIRST try linear option. If that doesn't work and you don't want to
> reinstall, some clever solution will have to be found ;-)
I'm glad it worked with the normal method... :-)
>
> >5. I'm happy because everything works (now without start-disk)
>
> Soon, that will be the case.
>
> --
> Laurent PICOULEAU
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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