RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] RH Linux 5.2 will not boot

How are you partitioning the disk? I have installed many times on disks of a
similar size without any problems. My suggestion is to do the install and
select the "workstation" installation. The script will take care of the
whole thing in regards to partitioning. You do need to make sure that LILO
is loaded which is the last step the install does after the Xserver is set
up.

Your partitions at a minimum should be
/
/boot
and a swap partition

It is the /boot partition that has to be in the first 1023 cylinders.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

> I'll take help from anybody right now.
>
> Have tried to install RH Linux 5.2 on a PII 266. Appears to install
> fine but will not boot from the HD or a floppy. I keep getting a
> bios message that no ***active*** partition was found on the HDD. I
> suspect it has something to do with the hd I'm using. It's a WD
> Caviar 31600, 1624.6 MB, 3148 cyls, 16 heads,63 spt. I highly suspect
> a problem with cylinders greater than 1023, but am not sure. I really
> don't want to go to a dual boot system unless I can help it. I do
> have a copy of System Commander to manage a dual boot system but I
> really don't want to resort to this. Does anyone know a solution or
> work around to this problem? Linux fdisk shows 4 partitions all
> starting with /tmp.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Donald Brock