[H-GEN] altering disk partitions

[Russell Stuart]

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On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 12:21, David Seikel wrote:
>  --- Russell Stuart <russell at stuart.wattle.id.au> wrote: 
> >   2.  Now that there are rescue CD's the very good argument of having
> >       a separate /boot so you can at least boot the thing if something
> >       goes badly wrong no longer applies.  Its faster, easier, and
> >       safer to boot off a CD.
> 
> The usual reason for having a seperate /boot, and having it in the first
> 2GB of the first disk, is brain dead BIOS's that couldn't otherwise boot
> your OS.
> 

OK.  I have heard that before.  Personally, I have not struck a machine
that did not succumb to a some combination of the IBM's Disk Manager
(free, but not open source) and grub or a modern version lilo.

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