Re: installing beyond 1024 cyl

[Gary Parker <G.J.Parker%lboro.ac.uk@localhost>]

On 11 Mar 2008, at 09:17, Zafer Aydogan wrote:

> I would like to have my swap partition "b" at  the beginning of the
> disk (sector 63) and partition "a" starting after "b". The size of my
> swap partition is 4 GB.
> An installation like this renders unbootable.
> If there any solution, to have a working setup like this ?

It's only your kernel that needs to be before the 1024 cylinder mark  
so make a small (10MB should do) /boot partition at the beginning of  
your drive, then put your swap after that and everything else after  
swap.

Gary