From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Jun 24 1999 - 11:20:30 EDT
is there not something about cylinder 1024..?
i.e. are you putting the redhat beyond this boundry.. ? whether real or
logical..
just my initial thought.. :-)
Bourdon, Bruce wrote:
> Sorry for the off-topic post...
> I have a IBM TP-770, with a 5g hard drive, Win95 installed and the drive
> split into a 2 gig primary-boot partition as the "C" Windows drive and a 2
> gig logical partition as a "D" drive.
>
> The remaining 1 gig is broken up as 120MB primary (bootable) partition
> space, and about 900MB of space in the extended logical partition.
>
> I get well into the Linux install (Red Hat 5.2) with the Linux partitions
> set up as the documentation suggests.
>
> Then I get an error message, either attempting to mount the drive (mount
> failed) or I get an "invalid argument" error! (of course I have no idea what
> the invalid argument might be... its in Red Hats install!)
>
> Any suggestions??
>
> Thanks.
> Bruce.
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