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Cylinder 1024 Problem with Linux Install

R

Rainsford

Lifer
So I'm trying to install Red Hat 7.1 Linux since I'm sort of a Linux newbie, and I'm having a little trouble. I have two partitions on my 30 gig drive, a 27 gig partition (first partition, NTFS) for Windows and a 3 gig partition (second partition) for Linux (fat32 for the time being). When I run Linux setup and I get to the Disk Druid setup, I try and configure the second partition as a Linux disk as the root drive and it gives me an error about the boot partition being > 1024 cylinder. I don't even plan on using Linux to boot, I'm going to use the Windows XP bootloader as described in the FAQ on this site so is there some way to fix this? Or get around it? Without repartitioning my drive of course. Thanks a lot!

Oh, and by the way, I'm booting from the redhat CD and using the graphical install.
 
Try using the manual FDISK and see if it will allow you to create the partitions without the error. If not, then you'll have to create the root partition at a location less than 1024 cylinders..Regards
 
I believe Grub would handle it.. but you say you're using the win2k bootloader.. hmm.

if you get desperate, you can always just boot linux off a floppy everytime you want to use it.
 
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