Re: Debian FDisk
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Adrian Thompson wrote:
: Hello,
:
: Linux fdisk doesn't see past 1024 cylindars, I have a 20.4GB HD which
: requires over 2000 cylindars. As well I have win95 on hda1, I want to
: put linux on hda2, however lilo doesn't sit well in a FAT32, or screws
: up because of the HD size.
fdisk works fine here with drives having cyl > 1024. cfdisk, OTOH ...
The caveat is that the bootable partition must lie within the first 1024
cylinders (specifically, the boot kernel must be somewhere between cyl 1
and 1024). This is easy to solve: Make a small (8 MB) partition and
mount it on /boot. This partition should start at cyl 1. Mark that
partition aws bootable and voila; you've got a working system.
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