On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] Arturo Duran top-posted: > 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. IIRC, that requirement was lifted after some version of LILO and is not a requirement of GRUB (except for some broken BIOSes), however, it couldn't hurt... Win2K also has this requirement, I think. > > 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. OK that's a partial answer. If / can be a logical partition with a /boot subdirectory, then I can do that or I can almost certainly have /boot be logical as well. But I still need to be able to put GRUB in a partition that isn't the Dell diagnostic one or the S2D one or the Win2K one. (The diag and Win2k ones need to be left there as long as my Dell service contract is in force. I want to have the S2D one until ACPI hibernate works reliably). Is there any reason GRUB would not work in the extended partition boot record or a logical partition boot record? Thanks. > > 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 > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
