Disk space issue during install.

[Rick Stevens]

Jon Goodridge wrote:
> Rick,
> 
>     Thanks for your help.  I finally got RH9 to load by deleting the  
> partition and letting install set up what it wanted in the free space.   
>  I ended up with a 100MB "/boot" and a 3.9GB root "/" partition.  Does  
> Red Hat require /boot to be separate partition from "/" ?

No, it doesn't _require_ it.

>     Anyway I was able to install RH9, but it would not boot.   Most 
> likely  I have something wrong in lilo.conf.  linux on /boot went fine, 
> but  then I kept getting read-only on "/".

With Mandrake in the mix, the odds are that your RH system is trying to
mount Mandrake's "/" (depends on if Mandrake set up filesystem labels
and lilo picked up Mandrake's instead of RH's.

>     I now have more serious problems.  I decided to delete the install 
> (it  was a minimum install for testing anyway).   I deleted the RH9  
> partition.  Now my partition table has become corrupted.   Disk Druid  
> can't read it and bombs.   I put osl2000 on the drive just to see if it  
> could read the partition table.  osl2000 saw the Mandrake 10.0  
> partitions, however, when I tried to boot Mandrake lilo gave me:
> 
>     "L99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99........." for about 1/3 of 
> the  screen and then died.
> 
>     So are there any partition wizards out there who can help ?

Sounds like a partition didn't start or end on a cylinder boundry.  An
"L" followed by digits usually indicates a geometry problem between
what lilo thinks and what the BIOS reports.  Did you change any BIOS
settings by accident (e.g. turned off LBA mode)?
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