Re: [LI] Partition Problem

["Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Dina-natha Das wrote:

->> I have a 4.3GB HDD. I want to have 2GB of Windoze95 in
->> my first partition and rest as LINUX. Windoze95 got
->> installed fine. But when I install linux, in the end
->> of the installation it gives
->>       "Unable to load in the BOOT LOader ......."
->>
->> But when I make a 500MB partition and load windoze it
->> works out fine. Someone said that it has something to
->> do with 1023 sectors/cylinders.
->>
->> How can I overcome my problem??
->
->My experience is that Linux cannot be installed on a partition bigger than
->around 3.6GB due to 1023 cylinders limitation. In my case I installed win98
->on a primary partition and I made 3.6GB logical partition on extended
->partition and I left it unformatted. Later when I was installing Linux Red
->Hat 6.0 I just made root and swap partitions on the unformatted 3.6GB
->partition that that was it.

Best thing to do in such cases is to keep a small partition of linux for
/boot, of say 15MB within the 1024 cylinders limit, and install the rest of
the partitions anywhere else.  This works fine. 

Nagarjuna

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