Thanks for the response, Matthew. I pretty much did what you described. To partition up my big HDD on the Dell, I bought Pattition Magic 8.0. I used that to partition the drive and then Disk Druid to set the mount points and format it. I understand your comment regarding the high partition count. I don't have the machine in front of me here, but the sequece of partitions is as follows: There are three primary partitions, a Dell 31Mb FAT and hidden., /boot 100MB, WinXP NTFS 20GB. Next came the extended partition, then /. I'm fairly certain that /boot was hda4 and / was hda6. My choice to locate LILO was /boot at hda6 or MBR. At this point I quit the install. For plan B I resized with partition magic, hda4 to 1GB and named it /. I renamed hda6 to /usr and repeated the install. With Disk Druid I sel those mount points. When I got to choosing the boot loader location my choices were /boot at hda4 or MBR. I chose hda4 and it boots fine using boot magic. I'm inclined to suspect that the fresh installation SW is the differnece between our experiences. To me it's good to know that /boot can be mounted to / rather than being inside it. For now XP will still boot behind / so I have a working solution. I don't have a working solution for the KDE lock up. Last time I had a KDE problem I took it to them and heard they didn't think RedHat built KDE properly. I had hopes of tapping some KDE expertise here. On Thursday 29 May 2003 19:59, you wrote: > I think I have the attribution right, but it's hard to tell. If not, > I apologize in advance. This is snipped rather heavily. > > On Thu, 29 May 2003, FrankK wrote: > > My quarrel with /boot instructions are that it implies that you can make > > a separate small partition ahead of the cylinder limit and put / > > elsewhere. I tried that with /boot on hda4 and / on hda6. The install > > program will only put Lilo on hda6. It's expecting /boot to be inside /. > > I need the boot loader on /boot for my XP dual boot. > > You *can* have a small /boot partition at the front of the disk. (All my > machines do.) You can also configure GRUB or LILO to live in either the > MBR or the /boot partition's boot record. (I've done it both ways.) If > you are doing a fresh install, I'd go through the Disk Druid section. > That allows you to specify the mount points of the partitions. At the > Advanced Boot Loader page, you have the choice of installing in the MBR or > the first sector of the boot partition. That's /boot, if you have one, / > otherwise. > > Note that installing GRUB in the boot partition will not set the boot > partition active. You need to do that yourself later with fdisk. > > BTW, I didn't think you could make hda4 a usable partition. Most of the > partitioning tools I've seen make the extended partition number 4.
