Re: install problem rh6.1

[Chris Watt <cnww chebucto ns ca>]

At 08:40 AM 3/7/00 -0600, Kevin Colby wrote:
>Paul Brandariz x6546 wrote:
>> 
>> Does the whole partition have to reside before the 1024 cylinder limit
>> or just the beggining of the partition ? Does anyone know ?
>
>Now, since you cannot control where within the partition a file
>may be written, it is a good idea to keep the whole partition
>under the limit.  Cross-limit partitions frequently work at first,
>but then when upgraded or recompiled suddenly stop booting.

I personally find a better solution, based on the fact that most hard
drives which report more than 1024 cylinders are big enough to let you get
away with this, that the easiest thing to do for a single-user system is to
make a small (10 to 20 MB) partition at the beginning of the drive and
mount it as /boot, then do whatever you want with the rest, secure in the
knowledge that your kernel will always be right near the beginning of the
disk. This arrangement is also great if you want to add a second hdd,
because you can easily add it in a RAID-0 configuration with your old disk
and have /dev/md0 as your root filesystem without affecting your ability to
boot from the /boot partition.
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