You may be having problems with the partitions past the 2gb and the 1024 cylinder. I have had problems with this. I set up a 200 mb home area for the boot at about 6 gb and put the swap right after it at 600 mb then I put the 8 gb of my main Linux ext2. I have used both Partition Magic and Ranish's programs. I had to be careful with this on both of them. Fact is the problem didn't show up with the 'past the 1024' error until the second boot after the install. However I could get the system up with the boot disk. Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn" <sfertch at real-time.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Linux won't load.... > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:35:50 -0500 > Karl Bongers <kbongers at infinetivity.com> wrote: > > > > > This sounds like a bootloader/bios/disk problem, the kernel is not > > getting unpacked and started right. > > > > Are you trying to boot a parition that is past 8G? > > Not sure how big a problem that is these days, just heard it can be. > > How is it partitioned? Maybe look at harddrive options in the BIOS.. > > > > When you do an install, most distros allow you to make a bootdisk. > > You should try one of these. They include a kernel that could > > work around any sort of early BIOS/disk problem like this. > > > > I have a 40GB EIDE HDD in this system. No different than I did in my Athlon 1GHz. Partitions are about the same size. 10GB for Windows, 30 GB (broken down into various sizes of course) for Linux. I was able to load and boot successfully on my old system. In fact the only time I went to Windows was to play a few games (EQ, EF2, WW2 Fightes mostly). > > I have the partitions broken down this way: > > hda1 - Windows 10 GB > hda2 - / 750MB > hda3 - swap 1.5GB > hda4 - extended (rest of drive) > hda5 - /usr 5 GB > hda6 - /tmp 1.5 GB > hda7 - /var 3GB > > I didn't create a /home yet, as I was trying to do a quick install to see if I could figure out the problems. Haven't had a chance to test again since my initial message on this. Remodeling the home tends to get in the way of such things. > > -- > Shawn > > The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. > > Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list