Fedora Core will automatically swap / and /home, and place /home in the
primary partition unless you "force" / to be in the primary partition.
This is an option that can be checked during installation.
After the swapping, Fedora will update its partition table during the
installation, but most people simply don't pay any attention.
As a side note, if you don't use Windows XP as a primary OS, you
probably should not place in the primary partition. wayne
Taylor Cody L. Contr 502 AOS/PETS wrote:
Fedora Core 1 question.
During setup I tried to set my partitions like this.
hdc
hdc1 > M$-XP
hdc2 > /boot
hdc3 > /
hdc4
hdc5 > /home
hdc6 > swap
After install I downloaded the 2.4.26 kernel, re-compiled it, updated grub,
then rebooted. I got a kernel panic. After some troubleshooting I ran rdev
and discovered my root device was hdc5. The df command shows / and /home as
being swapped. When I say swapped I mean they are on the opposite
partitions that I thought I had chosen during setup. The grub entry for the
original kernel shows root=/dev/hdc3. But, it also has an entry for a .img
ramdisk. Would the ramdisk entry in grub fix the wrong root= entry in grub
allowing / to be found? Also, would fedora prefer to have / on hdc5 because
XP is on hdc1?
I did not make a ramdisk, I just changed root=/dev/hdc3 to root=/dev/hdc5
and grub found my / partition and everything went smoothly.
Any info will be appreciated. Thanks. -Cody
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