On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Beth Gemeny wrote:
> Robert;
>
> Thank you for your most appropriate and valid suggestion.
Pleasure!
> I thought (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that if I make my
> root partition the first partition, no matter what size it is, that
> Linux would place its initial install at the beginning of that
> partition, hence the problem of having the kernel located beyond
> cylinder 1024 would not arise unless I recompiled it. Which I do
> not plan to do.
Well - one of the problems I have with this is that I am as far as
possible a belt and braces sort of person who has had too much
exposure to Murphy's Law. So, whilst what you say is OK, I have found
that something will happen that requires me to recompile the kernel -
and then suddenly the system won't boot...
One thing I haven't tried (and someone else has suggested this also)
is having a small (say 10 MB) /boot partition.
If anyone has tried this please let me know as this will save me 30
minutes on one of our test machines...
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