On Saturday 27 August 2005 15:10, Andreas Girardet wrote:
I do agree totally. The default are the ones the user sees. /home is crucial. Also /boot should be reinstated since grub has been playing up on some systems of mine with the silly 1024 limit! I cannot believe that that is still around. As a lilo user from way back I kind of gotten used to forget this 1024 limit.
That's usually a BIOS problem, not a boot loader problem. Since lilo and grub learned to use the extended BIOS calls, as long as the BIOS can read beyond 1024, they won't have problems, but if the BIOS is old or broken, it will still be there. I doubt it's common enough to warrant doing it by default, but it may be possible to detect if the BIOS can handle it and do it in those cases