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RedHat Install on larger than 1024 cylinders

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Shane Malden

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Mar 14, 2004, 1:43:30 AM3/14/04
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Hi. I have just setup a new installation of RedHat 9.0 onto a 20G HDD, but
on reboot grub cannot load because the drive is larger than 1024 cylinders.
Can anyone suggests on how to overcome that, or how to copy the boot floppy
I now have over the MBR on the drive. Any suggestions welcomed

Regards,
Shane


Alexander Dalloz

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Mar 14, 2004, 12:13:16 PM3/14/04
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grub has not problems with drives > 1.024 cylinders. Please post your
grub.conf and disk layout (fdisk -l).

Alexander


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Arie@p3c

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Mar 23, 2004, 5:59:03 PM3/23/04
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There is an option of forcing grub to use lba, wich in some cases should be
needed.

It's something like grub-install --force-lba Look at the man page or do a
"info grub"

Arie


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Frank Winans

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Feb 8, 2007, 11:09:54 PM2/8/07
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"Shane Malden" wrote

Maybe I'm being overcautious, but I always make a small partition at the front of the
disk and mount the /boot filesystem there. Grub only cares about stuff in /boot,
and /boot is wholly below 1024 cyls, so no trouble, eh? Oh, and I make it like 50
megs, and even that seems way oversized, but the rhel3/rhel4 install progs will
remonstrate that they suggest boot be at least 70 megs large.


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