What the "H" gives with FC11 install

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Tue May 12 18:56:34 UTC 2009


On Tue, 12 May 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> You need a separate /boot as ext[23] to boot, and it must be a partition. I 
> *think* it must be a primary partition, as the installer tells me I have not 
> enough free space for a boot partition, when I cleared 150MB for an extended 
> partition. Yes, I changed the size I was asking for to 150, yes I actually 
> had a few more MB free than that.

I believe /boot has to be a primary partition if the boot sector is 
installed at the start of that partition. If the boot sector is installed 
in the mbr then it probably doesn't matter so much.

 	Michael Young




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