SuSE 9.1 and large Windows partitions

[Francois Ouellette]

According to SuSE the booting issues are related to the way Linux sees the
geometry of the disk versus how the BIOS sees it. You can view this when
doing a "fdisk -l" and compare with what you see from your BIOS when looking
at the disk (cylinders, sectors, heads). More specifically if the first hard
disk partition ends on cylinder 1024 or beyond, there might be a boot
problem since there is also a 8GB limit on what the BIOS can "see" on a
disk.

Anyways, I installed the patch and everything is fine now. I installed the
same distribution on a machine with a different brand 40 GB disk and
motherboard with Windows 2003 Server and nothing went wrong.

So it really depends on the BIOS/disk/partition combination.

About the hanging boot, if you hit F2 while the green screen with the bar is
displayed you will see all the messages coming up from the booting process,
so you may see where it hangs (e.g. probing hardware, or trying to start a
process).

  François Ouellette
<fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Denisov" <denisov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Friday, 22 October, 2004 17:24
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: SuSE 9.1 and large Windows partitions


> For some reason, although with a similar config, I haven't had this
problem.
> I am running dual boot, win 2k off a 40GB ata (c drive for windows)
> and SUSE 9.1 off a  80 GB SATA, split evenly between Linux and
> Windoze. So far (aka the last ~5-6 months), no problems booting into
> win2k.
>
> However, on a related topic, my SUSE install doesn't always boot up,
> just sort of hangs there with the progress bar stuck in the beginning,
> no HD activity, nothing at all. After a restart, it boots up properly
> and works fine.
> At this point it boots up right ~95% of the time. Has anyone else had
> this problem? Is there any sort of remedy?
>
> Igor
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