Re: new Etch install fails to boot
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:28:04PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> If you can, try to get the boot files placed before the 1024th cylinder
> boundary. Sometimes this is at 0.5GB, 2.1GB or 8GB. Try a partition
> layout like so:
>
> /boot (primary #1, 2.1GB)
> / (primary #2, 37.8GB)
> swap (logical #5, 1.5GB)
>
You shouldn't need a 2.1GB /boot. I find that 24 MB is fine. Hey,
splurge and make it 32 MB.
Since we don't know what the problem is, better be safe and assume that
the boundary is as 512 MB.
Doug.
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