On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The /boot is limited to 8M as the motherboard for this older Athlon can > only boot from a partition of a few cylinders. The 8M is the maximum size > that it can be which may be a trap for us in the future whenever the kernel > is upgraded. > > Thanks all for your suggestions.
This sounds bizaare and not consistant with what I know about stage-1, stage-2 etc BUT All your images DO NOT need to be in /boot. /boot could contain /boot/grub... and everything else in /HereBeKernel I would try this: partition 1: /boot/grub # few cylinders as needed partition 2: /, including /boot # plus whatever scheme is needed BIOS is needed for the /boot/grub stuff, then it's filesystem for kernel, initrd etc ie unlike lilo which does boot TheKernel and needs to be run whenever the kernel changes. That would solve all problems. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
