Bios freaks

[Richard England]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Richard England wrote:
>> David Krings wrote:
>>> Chris Jones wrote:
>>>>> if the BIOS is the problem where it can't read past a certain 
>>>>> point of
>>>>> the disk at boot time.  Couldn't you simply create a /boot 
>>>>> partition and
>>>>> put it in an area that the BIOS can handle?  the beginning of the 
>>>>> disk
>>>>> (?)??
>>>>
>>>> Indeed. This is *the* standard well known solution to this problem 
>>>> (well, obviously not that well know it seems ;) )
>>>>
>> Snip
>>> I am sure there is tons of stuff that you don't know and shame on 
>>> those who make fun about that fact.
>>>
>> snip
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>
>> I would humbly suggest that the smiley face added by Chris was meant 
>> to imply humor and that given the number of times the recommendation 
>> to move the /boot partition has been suggested in numerous threads in 
>> the last few days, he was being just more than just a little facetious.
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>>
>    I don't think he was being funny. I have been around a long time 
> and missed the point about moving /boot to the front of a disk. I have 
> heard a thousand words a week about LVM and it never made the point 
> that it moved /boot close to the near end of a hard drive. I HATE LVM.
>
>

I'm not a particular fan of it for individual users or lap tops myself, 
but it has its place in the right environment.

For each task, the proper tool.

~~R