Sujan Nandy
2001-Nov-23 20:58 UTC
My m/c goes for toss with 1023 cluster/sector error! [ HELP ]
Dear friends, One of my friends got a ttypical problem with installing linux on a m/c with PIII 933 MHz. , 256 MB SDRAM , 20 GB HDD with SIS 6326 motherboard [ intel 815EEA chipset ] + 8 MB sahred memory. He made a dos FAT 32 partition with 12 GB keeping win98 and another 8GB as non dos for Linux Red Hat 7.1 ] While installing and specifying / , /boot , /usr , /usr/src , /usr/local and swap we got a typical error saying the partion is above 1023 sectors or clustors. After this at last it goes for instatllation and after finishing it asks for boot disk. The main concern is that /boot fails even after he gave 7 mb to it. The first time the m/c boots perfectly but after booting it hangs and we are forced to rebbot it. This time it goes for a toss with sytem check by going [ FIXED ] . while checking /usr it fails and tells us to go for maintenance with root password or press Ctrl - D for reboot. Here my friend is helpless. What should we do? Can anyone out there please help us. i have tried to give almost every detail possible, so i think I can expect a reasonably good solutions from any of the good guys out there! can you also please specify the mounting sizes to be given to say / , /usr , /boot , swap for 8GB... Regards n best wishes Sujan Nandy ------------------------ Agrawal Consultants AE-686 Phone : 3581449 sujan@ebizindia.com -------------------------------------------------------------- Agrawal Consultants, Calcutta, India Authorised dealer of PostMaster, by QuantumLink Communications Pvt. Ltd. One Internet account, Unlimited E-mail IDs.