Vince L wrote:
On Monday 23 July 2007 12:38, James Knott wrote:
Vince L wrote:
On Monday 23 July 2007 08:33, Matthew Stringer wrote:
Can't you just do away with the partition? Unmount it move everything to the root filesystem but still under /boot, re-install grub & use Fdisk to change the boot flag over. Linux has not needed /boot on a separate partition for a long time now and using symlinks is messy.
Matthew
This assumes that / is on a primary partition. If not, it is no go.
Since when does / have to be on a primary partition? I have one system where it's on a LVM and another, RAID.
What you have written is true, but you are reading what I wrote totally out of context. It was suggested to the OP that he did away with his /boot partition and put it all on the / partition. Perhaps I have missed something, but he needs a primary somewhere
He does not need a primary to boot Linux. He could use one as an extended partition to hold all the logical partitions, so that his first partition is /dev/hda5. For example, here's the lines for my fstab on my home system. There are no partitions in the range /dev/hda1 - hda4 listed. With Linux, primary partition numbers range from 1 - 4. Logical partitions start at 5. Please note, I have /boot on /dev/hda6, which is a logical partition and / is on my LVM array. This shows that "This assumes that / is on a primary partition. If not, it is no go." is false. /dev/system/system / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda6 /boot ext2 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda5 /local ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/system/opt /opt reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/system/tmp /tmp reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/system/var /var reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/system/swap swap swap defaults 0 0 -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org