On Friday 06 October 2006 09:44, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
I had some problems with Grub and Bootmagic and I've got a sense that Grub and BootMagic somehow interfere with each other. When BootMagic is installed Grub refuses to play giving an Error17. Anyway, I decided to work only with Grub, but...
hi Segey... yes, go with grub. Grand Unified Boot Loader...
These seeming interference with each other made me think that there is some problems with the partitions on that computer. The picture is:
I don't think so... I would do it differently, but your setup should work.
Partition | TYPE | Status | Pri/Log Local Disk(C:) | NTFS | Active | Primary (*) | Extended | None | Primary DATA(D:) | FAT32 | None | Logical /boot(*;) | Linux Ext3 | None | Logical /(*;) | Linux Ext3 | None | Logical SWAPSPACE2(*;) | Linux Swap | None | Logical
Is it ok with it...I think so many logicals don't look well ;)
You should see mine... ok, you shall see mine... Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2612 20972826+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 18483 19457 7824600 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 2612 2743 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 2743 18483 126438164+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 2743 2745 24066 83 Linux /dev/sda6 2746 2784 313236 83 Linux /dev/sda7 2785 3241 3670821 83 Linux /dev/sda8 3242 3437 1574338+ 83 Linux /dev/sda9 3438 3503 530113+ 83 Linux /dev/sda10 3504 3569 530113+ 83 Linux /dev/sda11 3570 3831 2104483+ 83 Linux /dev/sda12 3832 18482 117684126 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order The second partition is a recovery partition... you can see that all of the linux partitions (except swap) are in logicals. It is important to have /home, /var, /tmp, /usr, and / on separate partitions. The default on many distros is to put everything in one big partition... which is a bad plan from and security standpoint, as well as a performance standpoint. For instance /home should be mounted nosuid, nodev, etc, while / and /usr are mounted differently... this can only be done by partition. Also, /var, and /tmp, are the partitions that will probably get clobbered if the system comes down hard for some reason... storms etc, and if they are on separate partitions from / and /usr then the system has better chances of recovery. Actually, you need *more* logicals. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><