From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: After post-installation, before prompting for creating a bootdisk, the warning message is displayed saying something about cylinder number is too big (4008). After rebooting it looks that lilo is not installed to MBR, and using boot disk can't boot linux as well. I am using a 40GB hardisk with the last 10GB reserved for Linux. Starting from cylinder 4008, ends at 5005. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Partition disk such that cylinder 4008 - 5005 is "/" (the only Linux Native partiotion). 2. Install as per normal. 3. Additional info:
I have not seen this problem before. You might try again and make a /boot partition (about 25MB or so).
I can't create boot partition because I have already had two FAT32 partitions, and I need one /, one swap. Is there anyway to create one more /boot, to make it 5 partitions in one harddisk?
I found it is because LILO can't handle cylinder number > 1023 if use MBR. Is there a way to fix it? I hate using floppy to boot into Linux - so slow!
I have had the same problem when I was trying to install Redhat Linux 7.0 on my system with 2 partitions. I tried changing the amount of space on the second partition so that I could some left over in unformatted space, but, like you, I got an error telling me that I needed to have an extra primary partition left over for the /boot directory or the <swap> directory (it actually happens to what ever Linux partition that is made last under disk druid). I then gave up and found out that I had to have one Win32 partition and the rest Linux partitions and arranged it that way. Needless to say. the installation went without any problems and I was able to boot into linux. Later, when I decided to boot into Windows, I found that the partition that I had setup for linux had somehow messed with my Windows partition and put the whole hard drive in MS-DOS mode and practically killed Windows. I had to delete the Linux partitions and reassign the now free space back into Win32. Then I tried to do a partitionless install, using the update disk for anaconda, I found that my system could not process the loop created by linux and it CRASHED!! But I was able to get the error code: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in __call__ if todo.doInstall (): File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 1499, in doInstall if self.method.systemMounted (self.fstab, self.instPath, self.hdList.selected()): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 46, in systemMounted self.loopbackFile = mntPoint + fstab.filesystemSpace(mntPoint)[0][0] + \ IndexError: list index out of range Local variables in innermost frame: fstab: <fstab.NewtFstab instance at 83283b8> mntPoint: /mnt/sysimage selected: [ImageMagick, LPRng, MAKEDEV, Mesa, Mesa-devel, ORBit, ORBit-devel, SDL, SysVinit, XFree86, XFree86-75dpi-fonts, XFree86-S3, XFree86-SVGA, XFree86- devel, XFree86-libs, XFree86-tools, XFree86-twm, XFree86-xdm, 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Problem solved using parameter "lba32" in lilo.conf.