Ted Miller wrote: > I have gotten in the habit of either creating or leaving unused some space > on any disk that might be used as a boot disk, rather than committing all > the space to LVM. That way I have something to work with if I need "yet > another" boot partition. A bit ignorant of me, but is there nowadays any restriction on the choice of boot partition? I don't use LVM (having had some catastrophes several years ago) and always create a small boot partition among the first 3 partitions: sda1 Windows (does MS still require this? sda2 /boot sda3 swap sda4 extended partition I guess this methodology is probably long extinct? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland