[ltp] getting beyond the 8-Gbyte limit

[Jay Salmonson]

I just installed RH7.0 on my 770z and had the same problem.  Eventhough the
latest version of lilo (which I use) supposedly doesn't have this limitation,
the
barrier still exists on bootup, perhaps in BIOS.  The best solution is to make
a
small (~50Mb, or much less if you know you are never going to add new kernels)
linux partition residing entirely below cylinder 1024 (8Gb) and make that your
"/boot" partition where your kernel is installed.  Then it won't matter where
the rest of the Linux partitions are located.  Maybe you could squeeze this
partition in
somewhere.

I found the "large hard-drive" how-to very useful on this topic.

Good luck,
Jay

David Newman wrote:

> 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.
>
> Is there any way to dual-boot without moving partitions around? Or is the
> 8-Gbyte limit a fixed one? I have heard this is a BIOS limitation, but maybe
> limits exist to be exceeded. :)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> dn
>


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