Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:45:41 +0100 | From | Mauro Quartini <> | Subject | Re: troubles booting from large ide disk |
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At 01:31 PM 10/30/98 +0000, you wrote: >On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mauro Quartini wrote: >> Thank you very much. >> >> Hard to say for me, (I'm a begginer in Linux world): >> how can i check if /boot is in the first 1024 cylinders? and how can i move >> it in that place? >Login as root and do: > >fdisk /dev/hda > >I assume that your root filesystem is on primary master IDE disk.
yes it is so.
>Now, from within fdisk use 'p' command which will display the layout >of partitions on this disk. The numbers are cylinders so you can easily >verify whether your / (root filesystem) is within 1024 cylinders. >
if it is not there, how can i move it?
>Of course, the above assumes that you can somehow boot into your system >at all, i.e. you have some boot floppy (that should have come with your >Linux distribution). >
yes, i made boot floppy.
>> I suppose yes because Debian installation made by itself all, and i >> installed Linux in first (bootable) partition. > >I don't use Debian - I use Red Hat so I don't know Debian-specifics but >there should be some sort of boot or rescue floppy that should let you boot >and run fdisk to examine your partitions. >
Thank you again.
Mauro Quartini _____________________________
mauro.quartini@franchisetech.com
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