more AC1 install problems on SX164

Sergey Tikhonov tsv at solvo.ru
Thu Jun 23 13:39:49 UTC 2005


Hoover, Tony wrote:

>I typically setup my small partition as /boot, and my larger partition as /.
>2 gig ought to be large enough for your system, but is it possible that your
>kernel is residing too far into the partition?  I've never used IDE on Alpha
>for anything other than CD-ROMs, but I know that on some x86 systems you had
>to force your kernel to be in the first 65536 (I think) blocks of the hard
>drive, thus the recommendation of having a 10~30 MEG partition at the first
>of the drive for /boot.
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>T
>
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I would recomend to have /boot partition too. 10-30M might be not enough 
if you are playing with several kernels.

Regards,

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Sergey Tikhonov
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