Bios freaks

[Karl Larsen]

Richard England wrote:
> David Krings wrote:
>> Chris Jones wrote:
>>>> if the BIOS is the problem where it can't read past a certain point of
>>>> the disk at boot time.  Couldn't you simply create a /boot 
>>>> partition and
>>>> put it in an area that the BIOS can handle?  the beginning of the disk
>>>> (?)??
>>>
>>> Indeed. This is *the* standard well known solution to this problem 
>>> (well, obviously not that well know it seems ;) )
>>>
> Snip
>> I am sure there is tons of stuff that you don't know and shame on 
>> those who make fun about that fact.
>>
> snip
>>
>> David
>>
>
> I would humbly suggest that the smiley face added by Chris was meant 
> to imply humor and that given the number of times the recommendation 
> to move the /boot partition has been suggested in numerous threads in 
> the last few days, he was being just more than just a little facetious.
>
> ;-)
>
>
    I don't think he was being funny. I have been around a long time and 
missed the point about moving /boot to the front of a disk. I have heard 
a thousand words a week about LVM and it never made the point that it 
moved /boot close to the near end of a hard drive. I HATE LVM.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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