On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 11:22 -0600, rado wrote: > Hi y'all > I can't tell you which msg thread it was in but after an install and the > system hangs...one of the responses was that the boot partition might be > too large... No, it was that it's location puts things above 1024 cyls (largeness *can* cause). > > Although most of the installs (raid 1) I don't have that problems but I > have before. I usually make my boot partition 200mb. Generally 100mb is enough. @00 is ok too. > > my question: > What size do y'all recomend for the boot partition, 100mb? The important thing is that the partition shoud begin and end below 1024 cyls. Grub/lilo, etc. have to use BIOS calls. sfdisk -l /dev/xxx will let you see the mappings. > > thx > > John Rose > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060216/077e6887/attachment-0003.sig>