Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 1999 20:42:16 +0400 (MSD) | Subject | Re: In which order does the kernel deletes files? |
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In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907211630150.5018-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk> Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX) wrote: > Hi Ron.
>>> mv /usr/src/v2.3.9/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz239 will >>> internally copy the file to the root to new sectors, than delete >>> the old kernel. Result: The new image will be placed beyond >>> the magic limit. The boot will fail
>> The easiest way around this whole issue is to make a separate >> /boot directory (small, about 8MB) partition that is physically >> located below the 1024 cyl limit. Always place your boot images >> here. Once you've done this, you will never have to worry about >> such things-
> I normally allocate 16M to /boot since on most of the drives I use, > that corresponds to two [logical] cylinders, and that's the smallest > number of cylinders that all versions of fdisk can reliably allocate > to a partition...
What's a problem with one cylinder ? I use one cylinder and not seen any problems...
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