Re: Finally getting rid of Windows (almost)

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> One concern. The reason (even aside from LVM) that /boot usually goes
> into its own partition (here, I expect, hda2) is that some BIOSs have
> problems accessing cylinders beyond a certain number. If your BIOS has
> that problem, and your hda2 is beyond its limit, you could have a
> problem.
> 
> If you are currently booting both XP and Linux from grub, then you
> should be fine. If you boot to Windows' ntdetect.com, and use that to
> select between Linux and XP, you may have a problem.
> 
> You could, of course, delete hda1, create a new hda1 that duplicates
> your present hda2, copy the contents of hda2 into it, and adjust
> grub.conf suitably. Reboot to test. Then delete the old hda2, create a
> new hda2 occupying the gap between hda1 and hda3, and add it to your
> existing logical volume group. parted and gparted are your friends.
> 
> N.B: Back up the whole kazoo first! Also, you may wish to use
> ntfsprogs' ntfsclone to back up the NTFS partition before you toast
> it.

Yes, I am using grub so I should be good there. I used Ghost for Linux
and made a backup of the system to another drive. I'm going to checkout
ntfsclone as well. Just for the sake of keeping it clean I like the idea
of making hda1 boot and recreating hda2. 

Thanks for the info. 
James 

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