> One concern. The reason (even aside from LVM) that /boot usually goes > into its own partition (here, I expect, hda2) is that some BIOSs have > problems accessing cylinders beyond a certain number. If your BIOS has > that problem, and your hda2 is beyond its limit, you could have a > problem. > > If you are currently booting both XP and Linux from grub, then you > should be fine. If you boot to Windows' ntdetect.com, and use that to > select between Linux and XP, you may have a problem. > > You could, of course, delete hda1, create a new hda1 that duplicates > your present hda2, copy the contents of hda2 into it, and adjust > grub.conf suitably. Reboot to test. Then delete the old hda2, create a > new hda2 occupying the gap between hda1 and hda3, and add it to your > existing logical volume group. parted and gparted are your friends. > > N.B: Back up the whole kazoo first! Also, you may wish to use > ntfsprogs' ntfsclone to back up the NTFS partition before you toast > it. Yes, I am using grub so I should be good there. I used Ghost for Linux and made a backup of the system to another drive. I'm going to checkout ntfsclone as well. Just for the sake of keeping it clean I like the idea of making hda1 boot and recreating hda2. Thanks for the info. James
