What the "H" gives with FC11 install

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue May 12 19:53:59 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 19:56 +0100, M A Young wrote:
> 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.

In my case it's in the mbr.

poc




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