Debian 3.0r2 sparcstation20 scsi 1024 cylinder limit

NeeD_ResT · 10-28-2004, 08:51 PM

Hello,

Anyway, I face the 1024 cylinder limit on my sparcstation 20 with Debian 3.0r2 for sparc on a 2 gigs scsi hard disk with Silo.
-Can i make a symbolic link in my / wich is on the /dev/sda1 to the /boot that is on my /dev/sda3.
-Should I edit my partition and make a /boot on the before the / partition (25 megs for the /boot)
-Does anyone have any idea to help me correct this problem ?

sterrenkijker · 10-30-2004, 03:38 PM

Creating a symbolic link probably doesn't work. Linux has to be within the first 1024 cilinders. Maybe you can move your bootstuff to your root directory: don't mount /dev/sda3 on /boot, but mount it somewhere else, and copy the content of /dev/sda3 to /boot. Modify you bootmanager settings appropriately and modify /etc/fstab, so /dev/sda3 won't be mounted anymore.

Else you will have to reinstall I'm afraid, with the boot partition as the first partition, or just keep /boot on /dev/sda1.

Hope this helps...

NeeD_ResT · 10-31-2004, 05:34 PM

Thank, I'm switching from Debian 3.0r2 to sarge for sparc but if the problem is there i will try your solution.