Re: Fw: Linux

[Will Newton <nospam [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk>]

> I have come across a problem installing Red Hat on my H/D and wonder if you
> know anything about it.
>
> I have a 13.6gb H/D and Linux won't recognise any free space, as the H/D
> cylinders are over 1024. Even when I've split the drive in two 6.4gb it
reports
> my H/D as only 8.4gb.
> I have had a look and it seem that the kernel has to be loaded below 1023
> cylinders?

It has to be below 1024 cylinders. That's just the way it is. If your
Linux partition is above that you'll need a small /boot partition below to
stick you kernel on.
Sometimes fdisk reports the wrong amount of space, but it usually works OK
anyway.

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