David Krings wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Out of interest, when you install F7 where do you put the /boot >> partition ? I.e. is it a separate small 100M or so partition at the >> start of your drive, or do you make it a simple directory under your >> main / partition ? > > I put it all into one partition. The multipartition setup wa sintroduced > to me as an advantage solely when one wants to remove/replace sections > of the system or is forced to do so when using small drives. As neither > is the case for my setup I didn't bother with it. I also never know on > how large to make those partitions. Will a 100M partition be big enough? > Ball part figure - 218k for Grub, and about 6M for each kernel installed. > >> The fact that you find grub broken only after updates is odd. Note >> that the point of a separate /boot is to make sure all the files >> needed by grub are at the start of the drive, where the bios can >> access them. If you don't do this then what might happen is files get >> written to grub that reside in parts of the drive that cannot be read >> at boot time, hence problems. This could also explain why things work >> for the first install but then break after updates. > > Which is interesting as other OS don't have that problem. At least W2k > doesn't. I used to have a system where I had the boot partition fairly > far to the end and way after the 1024 block limit. But, it did drop the > ntloader into the first partition. It does, but in a slightly different way: "The resulting symptom typically would be a blue screen during the boot process with the message indicating that one of the critical system files is missing or corrupted." > So why not give an option to write > the kernel data onto the first partition regardless of what that is, > although....it then needs to be able to read NTFS. I guess that would be > asking too much. > Read support for NTFS has been in the kernel for a while. Write support is available as well. (I forgot the package name.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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