Sounds like an interesting configuration indeed. I thought a number of the linux directories such as /usr, bin, etc should be all in the same partition as utilities would be needed from there in order to complete mounting of the other partitions. I am thinking more in the lines of creating a little 10 to 20 meg linux partition to only contain stuff necessary for booting (like a lilo boot disk) and then have a root=/dev/hda2 or whatever and that partition could contain the rest - my complete root file system. I think I will give this a try tonight; hey, what have I got to lose but some data I just recently installed:). -----Original Message----- From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:25 PM To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca' Subject: RE: a few things I would think that partitioning can solve this. Simply create a small partition at the beginning of the disk for /. I should think 250 Mb would be plenty. The rest can go elsewhere. Here's how my IBM Thinkpad is configured: hda1 linux 250 Mb hda2 linux hibernation-partition hda3 FAT Windows98 about 1.7 Gb hda5 linux /home about 8 Gb hda6 linux /usr about 2.7 Gb hda7 linux-swap about 127 Mb hda8 FAT 2 Gb hda9 FAT about 2Gb hda10 FAT about 2Gb On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote: > I have got a machine at home where two IDE drives are involved. The 40 > megger I have in there boots fine, the original 425 megger boots OK in there > when I had it installed, but the 2.5 gigger does not! Lilo hangs after > putting 3 or four characters on the screen. That's why I tried booting with > the 40 meg drive and hung the 2.5 gig on /dev/hdc; that process worked fine > til I tried using 2.4 kernel. Now I get "interrupt lost" over and over. I > may consider repartitioning the 2.5 gig drive and see what happens there. > The ide.txt file suggested issues possibly with jumper settings. I messed > around with jumper settings for several hours last night and came up with no > new answers at all! The sooner I can get away from those jumpers, the much > better off I'll be <sigh>. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Buddy Brannan [mailto:davros at ycardz.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:25 AM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: a few things > > > Hi, > > I don't think the hard disk size is the problem. Lilo has worked > around that issue by now, I believe. > > However, here's a thought. At least, it happened to me once. Check > your motherboard's CMOS settings. If you have a virus detection in > your CMOS (built-in, not software like Mcafee), disable it, because it > thinks lilo is a boot sector virus. Confused the hell out of me! > Anyway, once that's done...well...that should help. BTW, lilo should > work fine...I know nothing about grub. > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
