* Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> [2004:10:18 10:26 -0400]: > This is most probably due to the fact that SILO is not happy when the root > partition is in the beginning of the disk and is larger than 1 GB. > Possible workarounds are to create a small /boot partition in the > beginning or to keep the / partition under 1 GB. Could you please try this > and see if it helps? Thanks for the tip. As it happens, the only thing I did differently this time around was use XFS instead of ext3 (with the same partitioning scheme that I had before - 700mb /, 1gb+ /home, and 128 swap). It appears to have eaten up the entire partitioning scheme as a result, leaving a 2.2GB XFS partition in its wake. I would have mentioned this, but I didn't think to check on the partition table after being unable to install SILO... Trying to repartition with ext3 lets me use the first 10% of the disk for / and then tells me the rest of the disk is unusable. Trying again with the automatic partitioning tool in partman gives me a usable /boot (at 100mb) and then says the remaining 2.1gb are unusable. I don't have time right now to do more testing, but I will try out some more stuff later tonight. I guess this is a partman issue? (SILO issues with the size of / notwithstanding.) -- off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide
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