[...] I do use lilo. I have also been running a dual boot box with M$ and lilo has been writing to the master boot record. But this time it's all going to be Linux. I have a 30 gig harddrive so I would assume I would be safe if I kept the /boot partition within the first 500 megabytes of the drive.
That's a good bet, but the mappings on modern hard drives are so hard to follow, and so idiosyncratic, that it's not a sure thing. It''s hard to figure out where the BIOS thinks track 1024 ends ... and aside from access to the kernel, know of no special benefit any partition gets from being at the beginning of the drive.
My practice ... which has worked 100% reliably for me with drives up to 120 GB or so (I think I've even made it work with a 180 GB drive, and drives over 134 GB or so have real BIOS problems)... is to make partitions in this order:
hda1 = /boot hda2 = swap hda3 = / (root) hda4 = /home
I'm not partial to using separate /var, /tmp, and /usr partitions ... but if I were, I'd put them and /home in the extended partitions at hda5 and up.
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