On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:58:40 -0600 Mike Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
> I know, but it's just such a royal pain in the a**! > > I've looked at my RH 7.2 server---which is working just fine---and the > partition there (created by DiskDruid) in not on partition boundaries > either. GRUB works just fine and so did LILO whilst using RH 7.1 and > earlier. > > mw Fine. I was relating my own experience on 2 hard drives, and, as always, YMMV. Both drives refused to boot, period, lilo or grub, until I manually removed the bad boundary markings. I tried manually changing sizes, I tried manually fdisking various ways, I tried LBA and Linear. Nothing worked until every ding-danged + was removed. Now both boot beautifully. > ABrady wrote: > > > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:28:09 -0600 > > Mike Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > > > > Well, if you can't back it up to redo it, and you can't take it down > > to redo it either, you're stuck with bootdisks. That isn't the end > > of the world. As I said, I did it for a year or more. Just make sure > > you have 2 or more KNOWN GOOD disks available ready to boot so you > > can fall back on a second one if one fails. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Speed kills. Slow infuriates. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
