> Why do you need a separate partition to boot from? > I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders, > obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb > too.
This is what I thought too! As I said, I initially tried a 64 meg / partition thinking I could keep /boot and other things in that space, and then have /usr /home /var /tmp, etc., on different partitions just for flexibility. But with that situation the install program would not give me the option to select the / partition (the first, primary partition on the first hard drive). Then I took the tactic of one huge, multi-gigabyte partition. LILO refused to install onto that. There is one variable here that I haven't mentioned. This system (SCSI using an Adaptec 2920 controller) had a SCSI hard drive as SCSI ID #6, a ZIP drive as SCSI ID #5, and a SCSI CD-ROM as SCSI ID #4. In my mind, Linux should have seen the hard drive as /dev/sda, correct? In this case, Linux kept putting the ZIP drive as /dev/sda and the hard drive as /dev/sdb. Is this the source of my problems? If so, how can one cure that (the Zip drive only allows itself to be set as SCSI ID #5 or #6)? -- Regards, |Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / / __ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ Teacher/Tech. Coord. | ...because lockups are for convicts... |What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]