Make a 20MB /boot partition and you're troubles will go away. The installer
recognizes that /boot should be put on a primary partition, as close to the
front of the disk as possible, which (except in really extreme examples)
keeps your kernel under the 1024 cylinder limit. If you're going to build
and test lots of kernels, maybe increase the size.
Thanks,
Matt Domsch
Dell Enterprise Systems Group
Linux Development Team
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lutz Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Kickstart installation problem
>
>
> Hello,
> while trying to install some computers using kickstart, I
> recognized an error
> (or should I say feature) in the partition process. All of
> those machines have
> an Adaptec 19160 SCSI controller and a 9 GB SCSI harddrive
> which should
> be divided into 8 partitions. Here is the partition part of
> my ks.cfg file
>
> zerombr yes
> clearpart --all
> part / --size 128
> part /var --size 640
> part swap --size 192
> part /home2 --size 2048
> part /opt --size 1536
> part /usr --size 1152
> part /tmp --size 768
> part /unused --size 1536 --grow
>
>
> After installation has completed the system won't start.
> Using a rescue image
> and fdisk, I found the following partition table:
> Device Boot Start End size Id System
> sda1 * 1 262 2104483+ 83 Linux
> sda2 263 1115 6851722+ 5 Extended
> sda5 263 458 1574328+ 83 Linux
> sda6 459 746 2313328+ 83 Linux
> sda7 747 893 1180746 83 Linux
> sda8 894 991 787153+ 83 Linux
> sda9 992 1073 658633+ 83 Linux
> sda10 1074 1098 200781 82 Linux swap
> sda11 1099 1115 136521 83 Linux
>
> According to this, the root partiotion is on sda11 and
> therefore /boot is
> beyond cylinder 1023.
>
> I assume that the order of the partitions should result in
> better system
> performance but how can I prevent kickstart from putting my
> root partition in a
> location different from sda1? Is there a flag that I might
> have missed or is it
> impossible to have influence on partition ordering?
>
> Allthough it shouldn't matter, I'm doing NFS based kickstart
> installations and
> kickstarts configuration file resides on the server as well.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Lutz
>
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