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Re: install on less than cylinder 1024

To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: Re: install on less than cylinder 1024
From: Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 20:58:01 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000403192539.0079da50@saluki-mail.siu.edu> from goesbatuat "Apr 3, 2000 07:25:39 pm"
Organization: Southern Illinois Linux Users Group
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goesbatu said:
> The problem was that because of my BIOS, the Linux boot partition had to
> start lower than cylinder 1024 on my hard disk.  (This on a Compaq less
> than one year old.)  For me, cylinder 1024 was somewhere around 7 gigs.
> Neither FIPS nor the Red Hat install could handle this.

My suggestion with IDE disks (no matter what size) is to *always* put
a /boot in the first 500MB of the disk.  That way you'll be able to
boot with even ancient BIOSen.

Steve
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