Robert, et al.
Understanding Murphy's Law & all, I know you're right.
But why the machine wouldn't boot up for the first time has
really got me puzzled. The kernel, as of now, should not be
beyond that 1024th cylinder (wow, I used the word should!) .
Unless the overlay software with it loading its own little mini bios
somehow hosing the files system... I really dunno!
If anyone has a clue about this, I would love to hear it.
Bethg:-}
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: March 19, 1998 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: Drive/File System Setup
>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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