Modern Bioses should be able to boot past the 1024 cylinder boundary -- if the BIOS will handle it, lilo boots to about 20gb according to its docs. But tell us the exact warning and maybe someone can figure it out -- I would use partition magic over the free stuff at this point. on Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:54:22 +1000 Geoff Shang <gshang at uq.net.au> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Dan Murphy wrote: > >> Well I now have the disk and it boots and talks, but it's giving me a >> warning about cylender 1024, which I don't understand and now I need to >> check the bios. > > This warning is to do with the fact that your boot image for linux has to > be on cylinder 1023 or lower, as the BIOS can only read the first 1024 > cylinders of the drive. Since your drive sounds like it's bigger than 1024 > cylinders, you'll need to make sure your linux partition begins within this > 1024 cylinder limit and that the boot image is also within this limit. I'd > suggest making a small boot partition as your first linux partition to > ensure that your kernel image is in the right place. You could mount this > as /boot and copy your kernel there when you're up and running, so that > lilo will be able to see it. > > Back-tracking a bit, I've never set up a dule boot system on the one drive, > but I do recall reading 3 years ago that it's vital that the windows > partition be the first one. The way to make sure you don't lose any data > is to defrag it so that all the data gets pulled to the front of the drive. > Then, say if you have 8 gigs on your 20gig drive, you know that there's no > data past the 8gb mark. This make sense? > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
