bo snyder wrote:

> I am getting very fusrtated with my scsi drives. I have tried a few
> different drives to install redhat 6.2 on. I tried 3 different 9 gig
> dirves and an 18 gig drive. All these drives are put in an external
> scsi case with a standard 50 pin to lvd 68 pin connector adapdter. I
> do not have any other SCA drives so I am forced to use the external
> drive case.
>
> Every time i get to the part about formattng the drive (with redhat
> 6.2, its the only OS that I have at this point), it won't allow me to
> make the main partition greater than 1 gig which drives me nuts
> because I really just want to have a 8 or 17 gig main drive and an
> additonal swap partition. If i make the first partition a 1 gig
> partition, then the rest of the .

To verify, this is an SS5, right?

IIRC (it's been a while) the boot PROMs in these beasts can only boot
from a file contained within the first 2GB of your boot disk. With this
in mind, you don't want a multi-GB boot partition. Have you tried the
usual i386 Linux trick of creating a 100MB /boot partition at the start
of the disk which just contains the kernel image and any necessary initrd?

This could solve your issue, assuming that your tools allow you to
create a large / partition offset into the disk.

Cheers,
Ross.