[3515] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Some concerns with the SIPB redhat installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Jun 18 12:02:37 2001
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:02:33 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Message-ID: <20010618120233.F20603@multics.mit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <200106181354.JAA22847@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>; from ghudson@MIT.EDU on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:54:09AM -0400
[ I added myself to linux-dev a few moments ago, fwiw. ]
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 18 Jun 2001
at 09:54:09 -0400 in <200106181354.JAA22847@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>:
> I have a machine next to me which has a Linux partition past the 8GB
> mark (starts about 50GB in, if I remember right), and it boots just
> fine. Ironically, I had to fight with the Red Hat 7.1 installer to
> make this happen, because the installer incorrectly decided that my
> machine's BIOS didn't have the necessary feature. I don't know how it
> decided that. (Specifically, Disk Druid simply refused to create a
> boot partition past the 8GB mark, so I had to run fdisk by hand, and
> then it gave me a warning at some point but let me proceed.)
>
> So, two observations: (a) the naive fix for this problem is
> unnecessarily limiting for some users, and
Err, my understanding is that this well never work with 6.2, though
it will work with 7.1 if the BIOS is hunky-dory.
Given that SIPB's installer installs Athena redhat 6.2, it won't
be unecessariyl limitting.
Is my analysis here incorrect?
> (b) SIPB will get a less naive fix for this problem simply by moving
> to Red Hat 7.1, although that fix seems to still be too
> conservative.
I don't know anything about what has to happen for this to take place,
but I'm under the impression it is predicated on Athena doing so, and
that one could not expect it in the timeframe of the 'next few weeks,'
which is when it seems to me such an issue should be resolved.
--jhawk
