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Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: IDE disk geometry
> >
> > 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 < >
>
> 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 < > could not...>> .
>
> I have several systems with the entire swap space well after cyl 1024
> and have had no problems. The aut
> 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
> e
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 < could not...>> .
I have several systems with the entire swap space well after cyl 1024
and have had no problems. The auto partitioning in
Hi all!
I have the same problem and i posted it to list but no one couldn't give me
the right answer. I had to recover some VERY old documentation about lilo
and ext2 to face this.
So, here we go!
The difference between bios params and linux reported params can be the
problem. Put your hdd param
The installation HOWTO at
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Installation-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.5 says:
There are a number of such parameters available; we list some of the most
common below. Modern Linux boot disks will often give you the option to look
at help screen describing kernel parameters be
hello
as far as i know i too face some problem while installing linux in my 13
gig hard disk in the last 2 gig of my hard disk.
Some one suggested me that it would be better if you would install the
linux in the first 8 gig of your hard disk or else you will have to
change certain settings in the
