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RE: How do I partition my hard drives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Fletcher)
Mon Mar 31 14:59:32 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970331115759.11254A-100000@kovalevskaya>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 11:25:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Ed Fletcher <efletch@ampsc.com>
To: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
On 31-Mar-97 Robert Johannes wrote:
>Thanks Ed, talking about Lilo, I actually once had trouble getting lilo to
>boot when I was running only linux on the ide drive which is 2.1 gigs. I
>hear that Lilo has trouble booting when it gets physically located beyond
>the 1024th cylinder?!? Now I have no problem with it, because the hard
>drive is equally divided between linux and dos. But since I'll be going
>back to the original setup where linux occupies the entire drive, how do I
>circumnavigate past this limitation of lilo? Lilo could only show
>something like this: LI and ofcourse hangs. I have read about what those
>segments of the word "LILO" mean, in terms of what went wrong, but that
>didn't help me solve the problem. Any suggestions on how to evade that?
Lilo wants to use a boot partition that is withing the 1024 cylinder limit.
You merely have to partition your drive so that the / partition is totally
within the first 1024 cylinders. This is due to the bios in the computer not
a fault with Lilo. If you use Loadlin, this is not a problem. Anyway, you
can partition your drive something like this:
Mount Point Partition Cylinders
/ /dev/hda1 1 - 300
/usr /dev/hda2 301 - 600
/home /dev/hda3 601 - 900
/tmp /dev/hda4 901 - 1200
This is just an example to give you an idea. You will have to use fdisk to
set up your own partition scheme.
Cheers,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
ug853@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
