On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:30 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > What you should always do is give Fedora the first spot, no matter what. > > I don't know what you mean by "first spot", > but your advice sounds like nonsense to me. Not sure I can make it any clearer. How many ways are there to say, /dev/hda? or /dev/sda? That's why I said /dev/hda or /dev/sda in the first place. First spot is the first spot. First drive, and also the first sectors of the hard drive, the prime real estate of the drive where the accesses are faster. > Assuming you want to dual-boot Windows and Linux, > it is wiser in my experience to give the first partition to Windows. Wiser why? Cause you can't make it work any other way? That doesn't sound like a situation where you're much wiser. Your limitations are your limitations, not mine. I've *never installed winblows first in a system, never had any trouble doing it, and I've not seen anything you've said that remotely convinces me your path is wiser. > > You also need to ensure that you have a boot record in place that is > > "factory".. or what I call factory anyway. This will make it easier for > > Grub to rewrite it. > > That also sounds like nonsense to me. > I don't think grub cares what is on the MBR. Yes it does, especially if lilo was there before and you want grub to go there. I've had to redo the boot sector as described many times in the past to get either lilo or grub to install correctly after other boot loaders had been there. LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° A revolving concretion of earthy or mineral matter accumulates no congeries of small, green bryophytic plant. Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
