[ltp] Re: 1024th cylinder problem on the T21

[Dirk Husemann]

>>>>> "BK" == Byeong-ryeol Kim <jinbo21@hananet.net> writes:

    BK> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Tony Baumann wrote:
    >> I've got windows 2000 installed on the first 10GB of a 20 GB
    >> HDD in a T21. I want to install redhat 7.1 on 5 of the
    >> remaining 10GB. Of course, when I try to set up redhat 7.1 and
    >> I get to the point where I'm trying to allocate space for /boot
    >> in Disk Druid, it says that it can't create the partition
    >> because it's over the 1024 cylinder limit. . .

I configured my T21 with fdisk. That worked just nicely. lilo needs
the lba32 option set (better yet, use grub).

[...]

    BK> disabled by default.  Note also that this option is available
    BK> ONLY when a partition has been created using fdisk, and that
    BK> partition is then chosen as the /boot or / partition.  The
    BK> fdisk restriction is necessary as it is not possible to create
    BK> a bootable partition above cylinder 1024 using Disk Druid.
    BK> ...

Ah, I knew there was a reason for not trusting disk druid... ;=)

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