[UCLA-LUG] Linux and Win

[dannys@csua.ucla.edu]

"Chan, Michael J" <michael.j.chan@intel.com> wrote:
>just to warn you, that if you put all the partitions onto one hard drive,
>you want to make sure that the parimary linux partition (root fs) is within
>the first 1024 cylinders on the hard drive... (linux needs to be somewhere
>near the front of the hd) or else lilo will hang, and you'll have all sorts

Only the /boot directory needs to be under 1024cylinders, as that's
where the kernel resides.  In a multiboot harddrive, it's probably
more convenient to give windows as much of the <1024cylinders as
possible.  Leaving 10megs for /boot should be more than enough.  The
rest of your linux partitions and swap can go elsewhere.

I've tried this setup under redhat's install (giving it a small /boot
partition), and it happily accepted it.


For even more partition fun... if you ever have to write device
drivers, you'll inevitably have to reboot your computer a lot.  What I
did for one of the test stations at work was to make all the major
directories seperate (/usr, /tmp, /var, /boot, and probably a couple
others).  Then, I keep as many partitions readonly as I can.  This
makes rebooting faster, since it won't complain about unclean
shutdowns for those partitions.  I dropped my unclean-reboot time from
a couple minutes down to about 1 minute this way.