One thing I would point out on your partition map is that you appear to have put /boot AFTER /. Today, this is okay, because of GRUB. However, in the older days of LILO, /boot needed to be the first partition. This is because LILO is a 2-stage loader, and the kernel needs to be fully located in the first 1023 cylinders of the disk. This can only be guaranteed when the /boot partition is first on the disk. If you put it second, then the kernel might be unbootable.
This all changed with the advent of GRUB, which is a 3-stage loader, and the 1023 cylinder requirement has now completely disappeared. This also means that you no longer have to separate out /boot into a separate partition. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:17 PM, JMJ <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/06/2015 01:48 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: >> >> I'm with Howard. I use Clonezilla often. Sometimes, I'll have to use >> GParted, first, to resize partitions, then use Clonezilla to copy stuff >> over and possible use GParted, again, to resize the partitions on the new >> drive. > > > OK that's 2 votes for Clonezilla, so I'll investigate that. > > Some of the more vexing issues I'm having are related to GRUB. Maybe it's > just because I miss "the good ol' simple lilo days," but the more I use > GRUB, the more I hate it. LOL I know it's extremely powerful and flexible, > but it's also extremely confusing to me. That's probably due to my > inadequacies than due to GRUB. > > This is how the partitions are currently set up... > > Part. HDD(1T) SSD(224GB) > / 52GB 57GB > boot 500MB 750MB > win7 105GB 114GB > home 52GB 49GB > > I'll tweak those so that all partitions grow a bit on the SSD. > There are 3 other partitions that will stay on the HDD. > > I'll google for this in just a minute, but what's the "current conventional > wisdom" about having the boot partition? And should I put a swap partition > on the SSD, leave it on the HDD, or neither? I've got 16GB of RAM. > > Sorry for the newb questions. I used to know these things, but things have > changed a lot since I did this sort of thing, so I figure it's better to not > trust my oft-faulty judgement. LOL > > Thanks! > > JMJ > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
