israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu
2005-Nov-23 00:32 UTC
[CentOS] Problem when booting CentOS on ALpha Server.
List, I've just installed CentOS 4.2 (alpha) on a ES40, 4 processor 833 MHz, 2 GB ram and when I rebooted the server it simple didn't boot... Any ideas of my problem? Regards; Israel
Hi, On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:32:47PM -0500, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote:> List, I've just installed CentOS 4.2 (alpha) on a ES40, 4 processor 833 > MHz, 2 GB ram and when I rebooted the server it simple didn't boot... > > Any ideas of my problem? >Most propably you didn't leave one cylinder free space for aboot at the begining of the disk. One must start with 'edit' on free space and make the first parition start from at least 1, which should leave several megabytes free space at begining of the disk. I do remember aboot taking some 1MB and cylinder usually is 7MB, so leaving one cyl is enought. -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi at iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/