-----Original Message----- From: Mark Annandale [mailto:mark@mannandale.plus.com] Sent: 21 January 2001 17:08 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: HD Saga Hi guys I partitioned my harddrive into 9Gb for 'doze and 5Gb for Suse. The Linux partitions are 4,5Gb for / and the balance as swap. When using yast2 to do the install I was told I couldn'y have a dual boot system because of the 1024 saga :-( I thought I had read in here somewhere that this problem had been overcome. Is the problem because of hda1 containing windows ME and doesn't like anything else sharing the drive? Regards Mark Annandale
Mark Annandale wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Annandale [mailto:mark@mannandale.plus.com]
I partitioned my harddrive into 9Gb for 'doze and 5Gb for Suse. The Linux partitions are 4,5Gb for / and the balance as swap.
When using yast2 to do the install I was told I couldn'y have a dual boot system because of the 1024 saga :-(
I thought I had read in here somewhere that this problem had been overcome.
Is the problem because of hda1 containing windows ME and doesn't like anything else sharing the drive?
No, it's just the 1024 cylinder limit. The latest version of LILO doesn't have that limit any more, but wasn't included with SuSE. You can get hold of it here: ftp://ftp2.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/a1/lilo-21.6-9.i386.rpm Just go ahead with the install, ignoring all of the warnings, and not configuring LILO. When you've finished the install, you can install the new LILO, configure and run it, and all will be well. Be sure to put the lba32 option in /etc/lilo.conf. Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
As Chris told you already, it can be done with the newer version of LILO,
but in my case it was not enough to install the new version. I had to add
one line to lilo.conf with following content:
lba32
Thats it.
As an alternative, there is a different loader called GRUB which I switched
to since it is a much more powerfull loader then LILO. It has an
interactive console mode you can switch to just in case you made a mistake
in the configuration file and your system will not load. Once you are in
the console mode you can load the correct kernel and boot into the new
system.
BTW SuSE, can we get and RPM of GRUB in the 7.1?
Avi
--On Sunday, January 21, 2001 08:03:07 PM +0000 Chris Reeves
Mark Annandale wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Annandale [mailto:mark@mannandale.plus.com]
I partitioned my harddrive into 9Gb for 'doze and 5Gb for Suse. The Linux partitions are 4,5Gb for / and the balance as swap.
When using yast2 to do the install I was told I couldn'y have a dual boot system because of the 1024 saga :-(
I thought I had read in here somewhere that this problem had been overcome.
Is the problem because of hda1 containing windows ME and doesn't like anything else sharing the drive?
No, it's just the 1024 cylinder limit. The latest version of LILO doesn't have that limit any more, but wasn't included with SuSE. You can get hold of it here: ftp://ftp2.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/a1/lilo-21.6-9.i386.rpm Just go ahead with the install, ignoring all of the warnings, and not configuring LILO. -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life, avi@CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux!
I added a 46Gb IDE hdd to a SuSE 6.2 box and it only shows 11Gb of the drive in Linux. I added a BIOS upgrade so the BIOS is now recognizing the entire disk but Linux isn't. I have put 20+ Gb disks into older Linux boxes than this before and had them work without anything more than the BIOS upgrade. Any suggestion what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein
Did you formatt and partition the entire drive or only part of it and if so how is it set. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
-----Original Message----- From: Michael [mailto:mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 7:57 PM To: SuSE Mailing List Subject: [SLE] hdd listed as to small?
I added a 46Gb IDE hdd to a SuSE 6.2 box and it only shows 11Gb of the drive in Linux. I added a BIOS upgrade so the BIOS is now recognizing the entire disk but Linux isn't. I have put 20+ Gb disks into older Linux boxes than this before and had them work without anything more than the BIOS upgrade. Any suggestion what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
You may have to add a parameter hdx=c,h,s to your lilo.conf or at boot-time, in order to get your sysyem to recognise the full hard disk (Eg my gigantic hard disk is recognised by hdf=7473,255,63 ) Hope this helps On Monday 22 January 2001 13:56, Michael wrote:
I added a 46Gb IDE hdd to a SuSE 6.2 box and it only shows 11Gb of the drive in Linux. I added a BIOS upgrade so the BIOS is now recognizing the entire disk but Linux isn't. I have put 20+ Gb disks into older Linux boxes than this before and had them work without anything more than the BIOS upgrade. Any suggestion what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
*^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein
-- Never trust a man in a suit cll
participants (6)
-
Avi Schwartz -
Charles A Edwards -
Chris Reeves -
Mark Annandale -
Michael -
muzh