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Re: Where to put /boot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Ghazey)
Thu Oct 24 18:22:30 1996
From: "Mick Ghazey" <mghazey@lowdown.com>
To: eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com (Terry Eck), redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:17:53 +0000
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On 24 Oct 96 at 10:03, eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com (Terry Eck)wrote:
> 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?
>
I did it a little differently. I created a directory on my C drive.
Then I delete /boot and create a symlink to the directory. You have
to be careful not to defrag the files in that dir. I run a batch
program every time I boot windows to change the attributes of those
files to Hidden and System because defraggers skip those files.
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Mick Ghazey
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