Re: COL2.3 not on 1st 1024cylinders(admitted newbie)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

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"Simon Hamilton" <shamilton@salon.com> writes:
> I have win98 installed on my 20GB umda66hd and started the installation
> beginning with PartitionMagic(bundled w/COL2.3) and during the inst. process
> encountered the message 'root is out of the 1024cylinder range and may not
> boot.' however, once specifying the correct partition to mout '/' as root, I
> was allowed to continue with the rest of the installation as per the manual,
> rebooted to win98 to complete the install with BootMagic installation and
> again encountered the same error and would not let me install BootMagic.
> I understand where the 1024 cylinder block is, but how do I correctly move
> the linux kernel to that are(if this is indeed what I need to do) in order
> to install my boot manager?
> 
> 
> I appreciate all and any help. Thanks guys.
> 
> Simon Hamilton
> Information Systems
> t#212-324-2146
> f#212-302-3222
> 
> 
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