FC5 nforce4 sata initrd problems [for geeks??]

[Wieslaw Kierbedz]

Danny Ciarniello napisał(a):
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> Actually, / can be root; it's just /boot that shouldn't be.  I don't
> know all the details about how grub or lilo start an OS.  I just
> remember that when I first started using reiser with fedora that the
> advice was to put /boot on a separate ext3 (or ext2) partition.  So I
> have three partitions on my harddrive (which is also SATA).  A 100MB
> ext3 partition for /boot, a 15GB partition for / and a 58GB partition
> for /home.  Other than the label problem, this worked fine.
I think that FC grub does not use initrd or has some limitations about
it - can not mount reiserfs.
General difference of these bootloaders is that grub mounts fs with
kernel and initrd and then loads it as files; lilo writes physical
adresses of vmlinuz and initrd and calls it this way. Therefore lilo
does not need to mount anything.
I'am going to try gentoo's grub then.


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