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Re: new Etch install fails to boot



On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:05:06AM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400:
> > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
> 
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:21:49 +0300, Andrei Popescu replied:
> > IIRC your /boot partition was pretty big. Would it be very complicated
> > to make it something like a few hundred megs (less then 512) ?
> 
> As shown during partitioning, it was <100 MB, i.e.
> 
>   IDE5 master (hde) - 41.2 GB IC35L040AVER07-0
>         #1 primary   98.7 MB B f ext3       /boot
> 
> Since each cylinder is 8225280 bytes, this is 12 cylinders.

Sorry, must have been very tired (or sleepy) when I read that!

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein)

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