On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:20:56PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Excuse me! Then why the hell didn't it use the existing ones already > defined as /boot, /dos, /root, /home, /, /opt and /usr, but without > labels as I don't use an initrd? There was no room to fit anything > else, the disk was fully utilized prior to DD ever looking at it. How is it supposed to psychically know this? Fdisk certainly wouldn't have any such magic powers. > Somehow I feel like I'm taking to a wall here, but the echos aren't > related to what I'm saying. And what I'm saying is that DD is dane > bramaged beyond repair, take it away. You want to write a replacement? If it works better, I bet we can get it accepted into anaconda for FC5 and maybe even FC4. Just ranting that something should be ditched doesn't help unless there's a viable replacement. > Thats pure, green, still warm and as found behind the male of the > bovine species. If I want /dev/hda1 to be the boot partition, then I > damned well want /dev/hda1 to be used as the /boot partition, I don't > need it moved to /dev/hda5 and given several gigabytes at a location > that may well be beyond the reach of the bios to boot from. /boot should automatically be forced as primary -- if it wasn't, that's probably a bug that should be reported and fixed. Likewise, it shouldn't be configured to grow beyond a few hundred megs. I'm puzzled as to how this could happen unless a) there's a bug which could be repaired or b) you actually changed the settings for the /boot partition or c) you told it to make a /boot partition manually, but didn't tell it any anything about any special requirements. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
