Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 21415
installation impossible with 6.2
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
when i try to install redhat linux 6.2 i face the following problems: 1)when i try to partition my drive using diskdruid it tells me than boot partition is too big! the partitions are /boot 30MB / 2GB swap 127MB if i use the fdisk utility the only warning i get is that my HDD has more than 1024cyls and creates normally the partitions. 2)after the rmp copy and before post install it pops a message telling about my HDD has more 1024 cyls,when it restarts i get a LI (instead of LILO boot)and it freezes. if i boot from floppy when it reaches the point:activating cpuid feature..exception error and it gives me a mem dump with Eip:010. my system is: AMD thunderbird 900Mhz Asus a7v motherboard rev1.02 BIOS 1004D 128MB dimm 133MHZ HDD western digital 20BB(7200rpm,ultra 100) creative geforce2 32MB compex re100 NIC also using 17GB partition for win98se thank you in advance michael
The error message from Disk Druid is misleading, and has been improved for this situation in Red Hat Linux 7. You need to put your /boot partition below the 1024 cyl limit on your hard drive. This is an unfortunate situation due to how the BIOS on all PCs works, and isn't really a Linux related problem. There are some ideas on how to make this work in the Red Hat Installation Guide.