[techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo

[Angela Nash]

If the ENTIRE second drive is RedHat, then no, you don't need a /boot.  You
only need a /boot if the kernel will be above 1024 cylinders.  Since it will
be near the beginning of the second drive, you don't need it.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Katz [mailto:jkatz at vtlinx.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:32 PM
To: 'techtalk at linuxchix.org'
Subject: [techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo


Okay, things are a little updated since my original question. Here's what my
system looks like now, hard drive wise:

	SCSI device 0:	 9.1 GB
	SCSI device 1:	18.1 GB

What I want to end up with:

SCSI device 0:

	C:	 2  GB FAT w/ NT on
	D:	 6  GB FAT partition for NT
	/boot  64 MB Linux native w/ RH6.2

SCSI device 1:

	[ The rest of the RH6.2 filesystems... no NT! ]

I beleive this is doable, at least in principle. I'm giving it a go right
now as a matter of fact, but if I'm going to need the newer "smarter" LILO
that allows /boot to live past cylinder 1024, please someone let me know!

TIA,

Jonathan M. Katz
Engineer
VTLinx Multimedia Systems, Inc.
8401 Colesville Road, Ste. 750
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Desk: (301) 563-8437
Fax:  (301) 563-8432



-----Original Message-----
From: Angela Nash <Chick at the-nashes.net>
To: 'Jonathan Katz' <jkatz at vtlinx.com>, "'techtalk at linuxchix.org'"
<techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Subject: RE: [techtalk] Harddrive problems with Lilo
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 08:29:55 -0400
charset="iso-8859-1"

If the RedHat install is the only thing on scd1, you don't need a boot
partition.  The real need of a boot partition is where the kernel is saved
on a spot that's above 1024 cylinders on the drive.  With modern bioses this
usually means above 8GB.  If it's below 8GB  you don't need a /boot
partition.  I don't use one.

Jason

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