What the "H" gives with FC11 install

Xia Shing Zee xiashing at gmail.com
Tue May 12 21:10:46 UTC 2009


Will /boot be able to be used with ext4 in the future?

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 19:56 +0100, M A Young wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 May 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> > > You need a separate /boot as ext[23] to boot, and it must be a
> partition. I
> > > *think* it must be a primary partition, as the installer tells me I
> have not
> > > enough free space for a boot partition, when I cleared 150MB for an
> extended
> > > partition. Yes, I changed the size I was asking for to 150, yes I
> actually
> > > had a few more MB free than that.
> >
> > I believe /boot has to be a primary partition if the boot sector is
> > installed at the start of that partition. If the boot sector is installed
> > in the mbr then it probably doesn't matter so much.
>
> In my case it's in the mbr.
>
> poc
>
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