Hmm...i'm guessing at the very least there's a beyond the 1024th cylinder
issue going on here (LILO can't boot if it's beyond the 1024th cylinder)
dave
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Rinendra Shakya wrote:
> Hello:
> I need some help to install RH 6.0 on my laptop (DELL Latitude
> CPx, intel 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM, single IBM 17 GB harddrive) which
> currently has Windows NT Server 4.0 SP5 installed on it. Here are the
> steps I took but was not ultimately successful:
>
> 1. Went into NT Disk Administrator and freed up 4.5 GB of space.
> 2. Put in Cheapbytes RH cd-rom and booted up.
> 3. Went into fdisk and created these partitions:
> hda1 NTFS 8GB (already present - fdisk shows the NTFS as
> HPFS) - primary partition
> hda2 NTFS 4.5GB (already present - fdisk shows this as
> HPFS) - primary partition
> hda3 ext2 250MB (for swap space) - primary partition
> hda4 ext2 remaining space as logical partition
> hda5 ext2 700MB for /
> hda6 ext2 150 for /var
> hda7 ext2 1.5GB for /usr/local
> hda8 ext2 700MB for /home
> hda9 ext2 1GB for /usr
> 4. When I attempted to verify the partition table, fdisk gave me errors
> saying
> partition1 overlaps partition2
> partition1 overlaps partition3
> partition1 overlaps partition5
> .
> .
> .
> I could understand that this was just NT acting weirdly but the tail
> errors also showed:
> partition3 overlaps partition5
> partition3 overlaps partition6 and so on for each partition from
> top partition to successive partitions.
> I fiddled around with this a couple of times by actually giving the
> start cylinder number and end cylinder number but it wouldn't go away.
> 5. I said "what the heck" and I told fdisk to write the partition table
> anyway. It did and everything went smoothly. The RPM's got installed.
> 6. When I came to the boot loader section, I told the installation
> wizard that the linux boot/root partition was hda5 (/) since I had read
> the Linux-NT-loader mini-HOWTO.
> 7. Nope, it didn't like it and I went to the Menu part to configure X.
> 8. So I skipped the bootloader section and X server test worked fine.
> 9. I also created the custom rescue disk went it told me to.
> 10. Then I booted again with the CD-rom and put in the custom rescue
> disk. It found the image in the rescue disk but it gave me a kernel
> panic and halted. I followed the whole she-bang a couple of times and
> nope, the custom rescue disk never worked - gave me the same kernel
> panic every time.
> 11. Then I went to the RH website and got the rescue image from there.
> And it booted fine with that.
> 12. I mounted /dev/hda5 as /mnt/test and did (as per the mini-HOWTO)
> dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/mnt/test/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> dd if=/mnt/test/bootsect.lnx of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
> 13. Took that floppy disk to my desktop (which dual boots Win95 and
> RH6.0) and copied it to the Win partition.
> 14. Booted desktop into Win95 copied that bootsect.lnx and put it in my
> laptop at C:\BOOTSECT.LNX
> 15. Modified the NT OS loader and when I booted the laptop the Linux
> option was there.
> 16. But when I selected the Linux option to boot, I get a blank black
> screen with a blinking "_" on the top left hand side and that's it.
>
> So I am stuck. I am guessing it's to do with the fdisk but I have no
> idea how to fix it. Any help, comments, suggestions,.... will be greatly
> appreciated. I have been tearing my hair out over this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> rinendra
>
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