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[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 August 2016 09:31:50 Liam Proven wrote:

> On 7 August 2016 at 12:47, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> > I disagree with that advice Ralf. I have had a newer kernel just
> > installed, to be located far enough into the disk that the bios
> > could not reach it to boot it.
>
> What kind of PC and what kind of disk and controller?
>
> This used to be a common problem in the era of 486s and early Pentium
> 1 machines, but it's rare now. Was this very old hardware?

Wasn't new, maybe 5 yo when I got it as a gift, old hp pavilion.

> > Because of that, I have had to redo the default partitioning so as
> > to have a separate /boot partition of a bit over 1Gb.
> >
> > And make sure that when done, before pressing enter, that it is the
> > FIRST partition. I have had installers (including ubuntu's)
> > re-arrange the partition list on me several times.  Bad dog, no
> > biscuit...
>
> Good advice (for very very old hardware, anyway).
>
> I never let automatic partitioning tools run, unless it's for a
> single-disk single-boot system: 1 empty HD, 1 OS. Then it can work,
> but it can still screw up -- e.g. putting swap on Flash (bad plan), or
> enabling swap in VMs (pointless).

With todays installers, how can you make it use an already prepared, 
labeled and formatted disk? Thats a trick I have never seen done.

Thanks Liam.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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