Hi, Matthew, This is not exactly an answer, but I do hope it is helpful: I have a brand new Samsung X10 Centrino laptop; it shipped with 2 OEM partitions, which simply made my HDD partition table useless for any partitioning tool. I therefore erased the whole HDD, setting aside a primary partition for WinXP Pro. My XP Pro creates a Compaq Diagnostics Partition automatically after installation, so I used a partitioning tool to delete this space. After only the XP Pro (NTFS) and the Data (FAT32) partitions were present, I carried out a Linux install with FC1, using 3 logical partitions for "/", "/home", and "swap". AFAIK, if you decide to use a /boot partition, it MUST be located in the first 1024 MB of your HDD. However, it is absolutely NOT necessary to have this partition present. If you create a "/", together with, for example, a "/usr", a "/var", and a "/home" partition, your kernel images will be placed under "/", and this can go ANYWHERE in your HDD. Regards, Arturo Duran --- Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a Dell Latitude C640 laptop that I want to > install Fedora on. The > disk contains a partition with diagnostics, and I > have (for the moment) > included a suspend-to-disk (S2D) partion for APM > suspends. I also want to > leave a partition for Win2k (still necessary to have > it in order to get > support from Dell). That takes up three of the four > primary partitions. > The last is my extended partition. So I have some > special requirements > for GRUB. > > Is it possible to bave the /boot partition be a > logical partition? > > In order for S2D to work, GRUB cannot be in the MBR. > Can GRUB be > installed in the boot record for the extended > partition or in the boot > record for a logical partition? > > TIA. > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ________________________________________________________________________ Download Yahoo! Messenger now for a chance to win Live At Knebworth DVDs http://www.yahoo.co.uk/robbiewilliams
