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- From: ede@kadabra.osf.org (Ted Ede)
- Subject: scsi disk partitioning and bootstrap questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.203237.9239@osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:32:37 GMT
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- A couple of questions:
-
- 1) fdisk 'x'pert mode disks allows up to 63 sectors per track. some
- larger disks ( > 1GB) have more than 63 sectors per track. Is this
- limit hard or can it be changed?
-
- 2) I'd like to use shoelace or lilo. when I partition my disk I took
- the first 8 cyls for root and the next 12 for swap.
-
- when I print the partition table it looks like
- Boot Begin Start End Blocks Type
- /dev/sd1a 2 2 16800 8399 MINIX/fs
- /dev/sd1b 1 16801 42000 12600 MINIX/swap
-
- I assume the the 'Begin' of 2 for /dev/sd1a is skipping the boot
- block? I'm also guessing that I can't use this partition for lilo or
- shoelace? Can I just make the root partition something other than the
- first partition, e.g. exchange root and swap and then use lilo? Or must
- I leave one cylinder at the beginning of the disk empty and start root
- at the second cylinder. As this disk is not my boot disk, do I need
- a boot block at all?
-
- 3) Which should I use, Lilo or Shoelace? Why? Will either
- get me a faster boot than using autocon and bootlin?
-
-
- I don't think any of these are in the FAQ. But I may have missed something.
- Does anyone else have problems finding things in the FAQ? It would be
- nice if the FAQ questions were numbered and a list of them were placed
- at the front of the FAQ.
-
- As not to whine without offering help, I'd be happy to help organize the
- FAQ if desired.
-
- cheers,
- ted
-