On Wednesday 25 July 2007 15:45, James Knott wrote: > Vince L wrote: > > On Monday 23 July 2007 12:38, James Knott wrote: > >> Vince L wrote: > >>> On Monday 23 July 2007 08:33, Matthew Stringer wrote: > >>>> Can't you just do away with the partition? Unmount it move everything > >>>> to the root filesystem but still under /boot, re-install grub & use > >>>> Fdisk to change the boot flag over. Linux has not needed /boot on a > >>>> separate partition for a long time now and using symlinks is messy. > >>>> > >>>> Matthew > >>> > >>> This assumes that / is on a primary partition. If not, it is no go. > >> > >> Since when does / have to be on a primary partition? I have one system > >> where it's on a LVM and another, RAID. > > > > What you have written is true, but you are reading what I wrote totally > > out of context. It was suggested to the OP that he did away with his > > /boot partition and put it all on the / partition. Perhaps I have missed > > something, but he needs a primary somewhere > > He does not need a primary to boot Linux. He could use one as an > extended partition to hold all the logical partitions, so that his first > partition is /dev/hda5. > For example, here's the lines for my fstab on my home system. There are > no partitions in the range /dev/hda1 - hda4 listed. With Linux, primary > partition numbers range from 1 - 4. Logical partitions start at 5. > Please note, I have /boot on /dev/hda6, which is a logical partition and > / is on my LVM array. This shows that "This assumes that / is on a > primary partition. If not, it is no go." is false. > > /dev/system/system / reiserfs > acl,user_xattr 1 1 > /dev/hda6 /boot ext2 > acl,user_xattr 1 2 > /dev/hda5 /local ext3 > defaults 1 2 > /dev/system/opt /opt reiserfs > acl,user_xattr 1 2 > /dev/system/tmp /tmp reiserfs > acl,user_xattr 1 2 > /dev/system/var /var reiserfs > acl,user_xattr 1 2 > /dev/system/swap swap swap > defaults 0 0 >
Whatever. I think there is some opaqueness about that description. BIOS needs to boot something before even looking at your /boot partition, ie it needs some sort of MBR. And even if you have a mainboard which doesn't require a boot record from a primary, what you say needs qualifying for the type of main board. In the OP's situation, unless factor XX is present, he cannot just ditch his /boot partition and expect to boot up from a non primary /. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
