From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta05ps.bigpond.com ([144.135.25.137]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16Lj2P-0006bH-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 05:54:25 -0500 Received: from data.home ([144.135.25.84]) by mta05ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GPB5AA00.4WY for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:01:22 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-136-137-64.qld.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.137.64]) by psmam06.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0h 110/5214647); 02 Jan 2002 20:54:24 Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16Lj2N-000728-00; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 20:54:23 +1000 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:54:22 +1000 From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Partitioning a drive with windows already on it? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Dan Murphy wrote: > Well I now have the disk and it boots and talks, but it's giving me a > warning about cylender 1024, which I don't understand and now I need to > check the bios. This warning is to do with the fact that your boot image for linux has to be on cylinder 1023 or lower, as the BIOS can only read the first 1024 cylinders of the drive. Since your drive sounds like it's bigger than 1024 cylinders, you'll need to make sure your linux partition begins within this 1024 cylinder limit and that the boot image is also within this limit. I'd suggest making a small boot partition as your first linux partition to ensure that your kernel image is in the right place. You could mount this as /boot and copy your kernel there when you're up and running, so that lilo will be able to see it. Back-tracking a bit, I've never set up a dule boot system on the one drive, but I do recall reading 3 years ago that it's vital that the windows partition be the first one. The way to make sure you don't lose any data is to defrag it so that all the data gets pulled to the front of the drive. Then, say if you have 8 gigs on your 20gig drive, you know that there's no data past the 8gb mark. This make sense? Geoff.