I ended up getting it to work, in a half-assed-but-eventually-would-have-done-it-way. I had wdc 2340 drive too, which i used in the same machine for netbsd. i put it back in as hda and made the 31200 hdb. The 2340 only has 1010 cylinders, so I know for sure it wasn't going to exceed the 1024th cylinder. =) I stuck /boot and /var/log on hda1 (system does mail and network syslog) and / on /hdb2. Works like a charm. Now, on to my next project. fibre disk raid5 network appliance -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 8:57 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: LI on boot Mark Peoples wrote: > > Ok. I've been fighting an install of RH6.2 all day today, but can't for the > life of me get linux to boot from the hd without a fd. argh > > The hard drive is a wdc 31200...CHS = 2484/16/63. (bios sees this fine) > > During the first install, I had two partitions, / and swap. Didn't work. > Then I tried /, /boot, and swap. Still didn't work. > > I've tried various combos of partitioning. dmegs shows that the kernel saw > the disk CHS as 621/64/63, even though I put append="hd=2484,16,63" in > lilo.conf and running lilo. > > fdisk thinks that the disk is also 621/64/63, but printing the parition > table shows that /boot (/dev/hda1) is below the 1024th cylinder (covers > 1-6). > > I know that the 'new' lilo does away with the 1024 limit, but, > unfortunately, the bios in this machine is much too old to meet the > requirements for the new lilo. =( > > Any ideas? Even at 10M, ftp installs are too long. =) > > Thanks, > Marco The simplest solution is to create a small root partition: slick:~# fdisk /dev/hda [...] Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 82 41296+ 83 Linux [...] This has a distinct advantage, in that it becomes possible to umount most of your box for maintenance, or mount most of your valuable stuff read-only, and still keep /tmp, /var, etc writable (you might want to symlink some of the stuff in /var over to the large partition though, to avoid spacefilling DoS attacks.) It was also how I sidestepped the 1024 limit long before there was another workaround. You will probably have to be able to modify your /etc/rc.d/ scripts in order to get this to work correctly at bootup. slick:~# ls -l /usr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 9 2000 /usr -> /storage/usr/ slick:~# cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults /dev/hda3 /storage ext2 defaults 1 2 -- jkenner @ mindspring . com__ I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| To Build A Better Future. | ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss