Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > and yes, one of the things that Brian did assume correctly > was /boot should be separately partitioned IF you use LVM - > but even if you don't use LVM, it's still much easier to fix > things if /boot is on it's own partition. I use LVM and put everything under it except / (root). I typically make 3 primary partitions of equal size (1-8GB), using one (typically /dev/sda3) for / (root). I have a standard 256MB DR-DOS 7.03 image I plop down (typically in /dev/sda1) so I can boot a minimal setup for firmware updates). I leave Primary partition #4 (/dev/sda4) is the LVM (slice type e8h). > Brian ;^) thanks for clarifying my incorrect terminology > though. Well, I can't exactly call it "incorrect," but it's confusing without following the traditional references. So I was trying to clarify. On the PC, the "Master Boot Record" (MBR) traditionally means cylinder 0 (512KiB for sectors/heads of 63/16, 8MiB for sectors/heads of 63/255) of the fixed disk targetted as BIOS disk 80h (which GRUB calls hd0). The "bootstrap" is then sector 0+ of any given slice that is bootable. The concept of a "bootstrap" is commonplace on most architectures for a given OS install. The concept of the "MBR" as part of the disk is definitely PC/BIOS centric. Other platforms use other methods to transfer control from the firmware to disk. In fact, sometimes the loader that targets bootstraps is in the firmware instead. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)