I installed RH6.0 Linux after booting a Linux disk using EZ-BIOS. By
this, I mean that I held down the Ctrl-key to go to the EZ-BIOS status
screen and then booted from the A: (fd0) drive which was my RH 6.0
boot disk. I did this so that Linux and Win98 SE would agree on the
drive geometry. Linux then did a loading intrd.img, loading vmlinuz,
etc. When it got down to Partition check it showed:
hda:[EZD][remap 0 ->1][1582,255,63] hda1, hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7>
This CHS spec agrees with what was shown in EZ-DRIVE's status screen, so
I felt that it was safe to proceed with the Linux installation.
I had already setup a couple linux partitions in partition magic. I
used Linux' fdisk to reduce the second ext2 partition's size by 125 Meg
and create a 125 Meg swap partition. I then installed LILO in the MBR,
although I believe that it's a "fake" MBR with EZ-BIOS being in the
"real" MBR.
I also added the following "append" to my lilo.conf to make sure that
lilo and Windows agree on the disk geometry:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
append="hda=1582,255,63"
other=/dev/hda1
label=win
table=/dev/hda
After the installation, Linux seems to run okay. The only problem that
I've noted so far is if I do an updatedb, it never seems to finish, even
after eight hours. I finally switched to another console and killed
updatedb using top. When I ran linux on my old hard drive (6 Gig, so I
didn't have to use any of this EZ-Drive business), I believe that it
would take fifteen minutes or so to do an updatedb.
I reran updatedb with the "-v" option (I believe that that's the correct
option, I'm not at my Linux PC right now.) and everything blazes along
until it gets to the .automount directory at which point updatedb just
sits there indefinitely. I've checked and the /.automount directory is
empty. Is this likely related to some conflict in the disk geometry,
or something else?
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