boot partition beyond 1024 cylinders

22 Aug 2003

      Hi!

When trying to keep an existing Windows partition on hda1, we
encounter a message to be manually clicked away that the boot
partition is beyond cylinder 1024 ("so it cannot boot", but that
is not a problem).

So we cannot really autoinstall these machines so far: is there any
solution to it available?

    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/hda</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            <mount>swap</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
            <size>2gb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
            <mount>/</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr>
            <size>max</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>2,3,4,5,6,7</use>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>

Thomas Mack
TU Braunschweig, Abt. Informationssysteme