Alex Sofronie wrote:
> geometry. Also, you must have the swap partition in the first 1024 cyls
> ENTIRELLY. On my system, RHLinux 62 reported something like <<kernel panic:
> could not...>> .
I have several systems with the entire swap space well after cyl 1024
and have had no problems. The auto partitioning in Pinstripe and
Guinness set up swap at the very end of the range of cylinders. I have
even booted systems without any swap space at all and ample memory and
have had no problems. I have had systems with the swap space on a disk
other than the "first" hard disk. I have had swap space on a RAID-0 MD
device. AFAIK there is no 1024 cylinder limitation w.r.t. swap space.
Possibly it is a limitation if you don't have enough memory, or are
using an old version of lilo or older kernel rev. Might the "linear"
option also make a difference where geometry problems are involved?
These days, I set up a 24-32MB /boot partition when needed to make sure
the kernel is located within the first 1024 cyls. I allow more space in
/boot for SMP systems or systems which need special drivers where I
would tend to have multiple kernel versions that I want to boot. I have
even had a case where "/boot" was on a partition of /dev/hda and "/" was
on partition of /dev/hdc and it works fine.
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