[techtalk] SMP kernels and ISO images ...
Michael Carson
mikecarson at usa.net
Thu May 24 10:27:33 EST 2001
James Sutherland wrote:
>On Wed, 23 May 2001, Julie wrote:
>
>>Greets,
>>
>>I got my new server home last night (dual 933MHz P3s) and went
>>to install Linux only to discover the RedHat 6.1 I have is Just Too
>>Old to load on a 60MB disk. It keeps bailing with "Boot partition
>>too big" or words to that effect. So I'm thinking about downloading
>>something a bit more modern.
>>
>
>Did you make a small /boot partition? With disks over 8Gb, you can't boot
>reliably from a single large / partition...
>
Is this true as a general statement? I thought newer versions of
LILO broke the 1024 cylinder limit, at least in LBA32 mode. Should I be
expecting sudden catastrophic failure? (gulp)
C.
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