On 28/02/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Going slightly OT, but is the /boot partition necessary any longer.
IIRC, this is bios-dependent. Newer bioses don't have this limitation. cf http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html#1024, http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html (yes, first time I've seen a geocities page with useful information too - I didn't even know they were still running!), and best of all - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2, which has a very detailed history of the problem/s.
Wasn't that a method of getting around the "boot must be in the first 1023 cyl" limit?
Yes, it was.
<flame bait> What are ppls ideas about partitioning? /home ?? /usr/local ?? /var/mail ?? ?? </flame bait>
As always, depends on what you're using the machine for, how you're going to be setting it up, etc. There is no One True Partitioning Scheme. There is, of course, One True Editor, and that is vim. -- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
