Hi all,
Any HD in the market 's cylinda > 1024. Some told me linux cannot be installed in such HD ?
Is it really and the newest version Linux can do tis ?
Thanks!
Regards,
hkw
by Wong Hau K » Mon, 08 Jul 1996 04:00:00
Hi all,
Any HD in the market 's cylinda > 1024. Some told me linux cannot be installed in such HD ?
Is it really and the newest version Linux can do tis ?
Thanks!
Regards,
hkw
by Michael » Mon, 08 Jul 1996 04:00:00
Problem is LILO. LILO can't boot partition beyond 1024 cycl.
Linux is smart enough to take care big hard disk.
If you have LBA in your EIDE controller, you will have no problem.
Good Luck.
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: Any HD in the market 's cylinda > 1024. Some told me linux cannot be installed in such HD ?
: Is it really and the newest version Linux can do tis ?
: Thanks!
: Regards,
: hkw
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by Karl M. Hegbloo » Mon, 08 Jul 1996 04:00:00
It works fine!! You have to pass a boot parameter to the kernel that
informs it of the drive geometry.
Here's what I have in /etc/lilo.conf
# boot parameter for large hard drive and RAM > 16Mb
append="hdc=2484,16,63 mem=28M"
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1. Linux install problems > 1024 cyl hd...
Hello,
I read the previous article in this newsgroup concerning disks that are
bigger than 500MB. I have been trying(unsuccessfully) to install linux on
a 250MB partition of my 1080MB Hard drive. Used Fips to partition the HD
and then booted up using the linux root/boot disks. Ran the following
commands:
fdisk /dev/sda
Got the message:
Disk is greated than 1024cylinders May have problems.
Ignored above message.
Tried to run setup
It complained about not having a disk partition flagged as Linux Native.
Ran fdisk /dev/sda and changed the 2nd partition type to linux native.
While I was in fdisk checked the partitions out of curiosity and got the
following errors:
Device boot begin start end blocks ID sys
/dev/sda1 * 1 1 780 798704 6 DOS 16Bit=>32M
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
Physical=(389,127,32) Logical=(779,63,32)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
physical=(389,127,32) Should be (389,63,32)
/dev/sda2 391 781 1030 256000 82 Linux Native
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings:
physical=(390,0,1) logical=(780,0,1)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
physical=(514,127,32) logical=(1029,63,32)
partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
physical=(514,127,32) should be (514,63,32)
What the hell is going on? Is Linux really unable to handle a disk bigger
than 1024MB?
Do I need to manually edit the partition tables to reflect the partition
sizes? If I do can anyone tell me how I might go about doing this?
Please post/email me with responses.
Thanks,
Mike Smith
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