config questions

[Bjorn Meyer]

Ok. I have sorted out the ROOTPW issue. But one thing that I still don't
understand is that there appears to be a minimum of somewhere just over the
500MB mark. I created a /boot partition of 600MB and the system seems to
boot just fine.
Can anyone tell me if this is accurate or not? Or am I missing something
somewhere? The documentation shows even / as having a partition size of
200MB, but that doesn't work. Does this lead to issues of other partitions
not being able to be less than around 500MB as well?

Can someone please help?

Bjorn


On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Bjorn Meyer <bjorn.m.meyer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am trying to create a /boot partition of about 100MB. However when the
> system reboots, I get GRUB filling the screen and does nothing more. The
> following is what I am currently trying.
>
> disk_config disk1
> primary     /boot     100     defaults     ;boot -j ext3
> primary     /         1024    defaults     ;-c -j ext3
> #logical     /         1024    defaults     ;-c -j ext3
> logical     swap      500
>
> I have also tried using logical for / but get the same results. Is there a
> minimum size that has to be entered for this to work correctly? I have
> noticed that I get pretty much the same thing if I set / to 500MB. If I go
> to 750MB or more, things seem to be better off.
>
> I have also noticed that once a successful install is done, root can log in
> with out a password even though I have specified an MD5 value in the ROOTPW
> variable. Not sure why that is.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Bjorn
>
>
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