Sthitaprajna wrote:
> Your /boot partition must not be ReiserFS formatted. That should be
> plain old ttso's ext2. Then, LILO will boot the kernel from /boot,
> and have Linux running in a jiffy.
I had the same arrangement some time back and I am discovering that
there are more than one ways in which the process of installing LILO
can fail.
1. If the size of the /boot partition is less than certain, 30 MB I
guess.
The filesystem preparation itself fails.
2. If that is surpassed, ie the partition is more than 30 MB, 32 in my
case, it seems LILO fails in installing this.
> A /boot > 16 MB is no use. On my m/c, I have a /boot of 10 mb, and it
> boots win98, SuSE and Debian. And yet, more than 6 mb must nbe free.
Oh.. I have had 8 MB /boot etc. Definitely no problem. Try to see what I
mean rather than telling me to own an HDD factory. You apparently have
had
no experience of the problems about partitioning. Who can imagine
beforehand
that ReiserFS would crib in making a partition less than 30 MB. It helps
to ask and to look and that is what I am doing.
> Well, if you have a HDD factory, then why > 16 mb, make it as much as
> 1 gb. What prevents you;
What prevents me from using extra space in my /boot?
Rohit
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