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Where to put /boot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry Eck)
Thu Oct 24 11:04:32 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 10:03:07 CDT
From: eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com (Terry Eck)
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I currently have RedHat 4.0 installed on a scsi drive. Since I have
IDE drives also my BIOS cannot boot from the scsi. I boot with the
OS/2 bootmanager. I've seen reference in this list as to putting
the /boot directory on an IDE partition and booting from there.
Is there anything required in the boot partition besides /boot?
The way I see this as configured and working is the following:
/ (linux root) /dev/sda1
/boot /dev/hda5 < bootable from OS/2 BootManager
/usr /dev/sda2
/home /dev/sda3
I currently have /boot on /dev/sda1. I plan to create the /dev/hda5
partition as about 10Mb, format it, mount and copy the present /boot
directory over to it. I then will delete everything under boot and
in fstab have the following
/dev/sda1 / ext2 ...
/dev/hda5 /boot ext2 ...
/dev/sda2 /usr ...
etc.
I'll then boot from floppy with something like "linux mount=/dev/hda5"
and if it boots run lilo. I'm not sure how to setup lilo.config for what
I want to do.
Can anyone comment on this scheme and help me out on any pitfalls?
Thanks,
Terry
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