Quoting Simon Heywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:01:47 +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: >> If you're going to use RAID on the disk, the first partition MUST start >> on block 1 (one!), not 0 (zero). Can't remember exactly why (usually I >> forget 'obvious reasons' :) but it have something to do with with ext2/3 >> inode list, the boot block or with the RAID system needing block zero for >> something... > > The first few blocks of an ext2 or ext3 filesystem are unused, so > putting one at the start of the disk doesn't matter - the SILO code and > the disk label in block 0 of the disk are untouched. > > A partition that's part of an MD array will have data written to it from > its first block, so if it starts on block 0 of the disk then SILO and > the disk label be overwritten. > >> NOTE: This is true EVEN if the first partition isn't an MD! > > Why's that?
Don't know. It's the facts. http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/08/msg00123.html http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-sparc/2002-Mar/0018.html I don't have time to prove my point. Believe me or not. Your call. -- Legion of Doom subway Cuba assassination congress kibo 767 DES PLO NORAD Khaddafi killed toluene Saddam Hussein 747 [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this] [Or http://www.europarl.eu.int/tempcom/echelon/pdf/rapport_echelon_en.pdf] If neither of these works, try http://www.aclu.org and search for echelon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
