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Re: Boot partition too big
- To: Yoni Cohen <yonico(at-nospam)hotmail.com>
- Subject: Re: Boot partition too big
- From: Yedidya Bar-david <didi(at-nospam)tau.ac.il>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:00:28 +0300
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- In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F19DkqH147iPkr0001677c@hotmail.com>; from yonico@hotmail.com on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:04:57PM -0000
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Hi
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:04:57PM -0000, Yoni Cohen wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have an 20G HD, there are already two partitions for windows (FAT32).
> I want to install RH 6.2 Server on different partition, when i try to create
> new 4G 'Linux native' partition under mount point /, i get an error message
> "Boot partition too big", this message appeared also when the size of this
> partition is 1M ?!.
In most cases, the lilo that comes with RH 6.2, at least the latest
updates of it, has a working lba32 option. Just make sure, that you
disable the 'linear' option of it during install - it's on by default,
and the two (lba32 and linear) conflict, and make lilo do not install
itself at all.
>
> I know that RH 7 will probably solve this problem, but i need the 6.2
> version.
>
> any idea for a workaround ?
>
> Thanks
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