[ltp] getting beyond the 8-Gbyte limit

[Tim Prince]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Newman" <dnewman@networktest.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 8:03 AM
Subject: [ltp] getting beyond the 8-Gbyte limit


>
> Am looking to install Linux on my T21 (2647-67U) in a dual-boot config
with
> Windows 2000, and need help in getting past the 8-Gbyte barrier.
>
> This machine has a 10G drive, and currently I have two partitions for
W2K:
>
> 6.9 Gbytes (7,416,266,752 bytes) for the OS
> 768 Mbytes (805,044,224 bytes) I added as a W2K swap partition
>
> This total puts me over 8 Gbytes. I've tried to install both RH 6.2
and 7.0
> in the remaining space, but in both cases LILO complains about being
over
> the 1024 cylinder limit.
>
I put my /boot partition right after the W2K image installation, as it
is the only one which needs to be in the first 8GB, followed by the
Windows swap and a FAT32 for file systems to be shared between linux ans
W2K, then at last / and linux swap.  The first 512 bytes of /boot are
copied to the bootsect file along with boot.ini in order to activate
lilo from NTLDF>


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