Carmelo Andronaco
Posted 10 years, 6 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
Ok, I'm getting really fustrated with this problem, I have followed your second minihandout booklet with Redhat 7.1 on the cover and I get all mucked up on page 28.
My problem goes like this!
My computer is a PIII 933, HD of 40GB and 512 MB RAM.
I decided to partition this drive with Windows having 35GB and leaving Linux with 5GB (SO I have two partitions, Windows on the 1st and nothing on the second), when I go into DiskDruid I see both partitions and I delete the second (the one I just made) then "add" a swap partition, this works fine. However when I go to make the root directory mounting it as /, it says that the partition is greater than 1024 cylinders, when it is not. It must be reading the Windows partition OR SOMETHING, I have no idea PLEASE HELP ME!!
Plus how much should I assign to the swap partition?
les barron
Posted 10 years, 6 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
Re: Redhat 7.1 & 1024 cylinder problem
Hi
How did you partition your drive for a start ??
If you can just make a 50 meg (or less ) partition at the beginning
of the drive, format it in ext2 then during installation call this
partition /boot then make your swap (250 to 500 meg should
be plenty) then use the rest as / redhat will no longer complain.
There are other ways however this is still the safest.
When you are asked where do you want lilo installed choose
the mbr or if you are using a different boot manager lilo could
be installed in the boot partition, do not install it in the / partition -
if you do it still will not boot.
Best of luck & keep trying as it's well worth it in the end
Les :-))
Bernard Wylie
Posted 10 years, 6 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
Re: Redhat 7.1 & 1024 cylinder problem
Redhat still persist in using an old version of lilo. Use Redhat 7.2 or any 8.x version of Mandrakre and you won't have this problem.
Simone Bridges
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
Joined: N/A
Swap partition should be about 3 times the amount of ram you run. some people say 2. Safe to go between 2 and 3 times.
The 1024 cylinder restriction is for the boot (not root) partition. Basically you need your /boot directory to lie in the FIRST 1024 cylinders of the hard disk. Otherwise bios can't read it.
