andy wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen F. Bosch > Savage, indeed.
>
> > When it does this, can you see glimpses of the above text between
> > flashes?
>
> No , just a completely black, blank screen. What did all that stuff tell
> you, Stephen?
It *looks* like X is starting normally, so yes, I'm a bit perplexed.
> It hasn't done it since Saturday.. I've just wanged a new 20 gb hard drive
> drive in and I'm going sit Linux in a 5 gb partition on that. If I do that,
> even though they will be on seperate drives, lilo will still work won't it?
Intermittent problems are always a bitch to diagnose.
Lilo doesn't really care about where the kernel is, but the kernel does,
sometimes. It depends on your hardware. Kernels like to be within the
first 1024 cylinders of the disk, so you might want to make a /boot
partition that's at the beginning or near the beginning of the disk --
the other partitions can be anywhere you'd like them to be.
> 5gb should be big enough for just about anything I can throw at it as far as
> Linux is concerned, shouldn't it?
Sure - I'm surviving just fine on 4 Gb.
-Stephen-
