> And lo, H. Peter Anvin saith unto me:
> (1) It's an extra step to go wrong.
...
> If I trusted initrd, I'd have set up / as a mirror set...but especially
> don't have problems now booting off a partition...
I know this is probably a silly idea but doesn't lilo accept a stanza
like
ramdisk=/dev/hda7
Put an uncompressed fiesystem on there and hey presto your initrd _is_ a
partition, which you can mount somewhere later in the boot process...
Obviously any 1024 cylinder rules you may have still apply.
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>)
<http://poboxes.com/rdebath>
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