From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:23:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:23:20 -0400 Received: from libra.cus.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.19]:50359 "EHLO libra.cus.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:23:07 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010724151125.00a6a880@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:21:29 +0100 To: alad@hss.hns.com From: Anton Altaparmakov Subject: Re: /boot partition creation Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rshekhar@hss.hns.com In-Reply-To: <65256A93.004BE747.00@sandesh.hss.hns.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing At 13:37 24/07/01, alad@hss.hns.com wrote: > I am trying to install redhat 7.1 on my m/c that already has an 8.5gb > win NT partition. >During partition configuration, I cannot create /boot as it says that "/boot >cannot be created after 8.5G" >I know the reason.. but don't know the remedy Please note that this is not really a kernel topic... so this is the wrong list to ask... But anyway, I will try to give you a suggestion: Try to install without making a separate /boot partition and leave yourself some space for that. Then use the created boot floppy to get into your linux install after finishing the installation if the normal boot process doesn't work. Then edit /etc/lilo.conf adding the lba32 parameter to the file. Then rerun lilo and it should be able to boot fine from HD, the 8.5GB limit no longer should matter. - This should work unless you have some old bios... You can then just manually create a partition, mount it somewhere, copy everything from /boot to it (cp -ar) then unmount it, rm -rf /boot, setup /etc/fstab to the new partition mount as /boot and type mount /boot. It should be all done. Then just rerun lilo and reboot to check it is all fine. It should be. - Just make sure that creating the /boot partition doesn't rename your other linux partitions and if it does, you need to update /etc/fstab accordingly before you reboot... HTH, Anton -- "Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/