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SubjectRe: troubles booting from large ide disk
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
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mauro.quartini@franchisetech.com


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