Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM
> From: Laurent PICOULEAU <lcrpic@a2points.com>
> Date: Samstag, 17. Januar 1998 02:34
> 1°) Try commenting compact
Already tried that, then LILO started but only typed 'LI'
> 2°) I don't think that your BIOS support lba.
I don't either... :-)
> If I'm right you'll have to
> declare your disk as having 16 heads, 63 sectors, 3308 cylinders
> because lilo relies on the BIOS to access the kernel and your BIOS
> don't know how to handle more than 16 heads.
okay...
> The only annoyance
> will be to ensure that the kernel resides in the 1024 firs cylinders :
> just create a (small) partition there and mount it as /boot or a slightly
> larger one and mount it as / .
But all of my HD-space is already in use! From where should I get the
'small' partition, that also has to reside in the first 1024 cylinders? Oh!
I've got an idea, what if I just kill this unused Linux/MINIX-partition and
the swap-partition and 'switch them round' (so that there is a small space
of 1024 cylinders infront of swap left). It would (probably) look something
like this:
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 3 8064 83 Linux native <--
will be mounted as /boot, should I mark it with 'bootable' ?
/dev/hda2 4 4 29 50368+ 82 Linux swap <-- now
my swap is here
/dev/hda3 30 30 45 32256 83 Linux native <--
this is /
/dev/hda4 46 46 827 1576512 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 46 46 260 433408+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda6 261 261 281 42304+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 282 282 827 1100704+ 83 Linux native
I'll have to tell Linux to look at hda2 for a swap partition... probably in
fstab, right? But can I just change the partition while the system is
running? I couldn't find any notes on this.
Is the following procedure possible:
1. I change the partition tabel as shown above, using the cfdisk-utility
2. I edit fstab and correct the data in there
3. I rerun lilo
4. I change HD-info (16 heads, 63 sectors, 3308 cylinders) in BIOS
5. I'm happy because everything works (now without start-disk)
6. I say thanx to all people who helped me set up my computer :-)
- Fabian
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