[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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