[Novalug] Fixed!

[Ed T. Toton III]

Thus spake James Ewing Cottrell 3rd:

> <advice>
> Always insist on the maximum partitioning control that the installer 
> will give you. In fact, I tend to hit ALT-F2 and do my own partitioning 
> via fdisk (never use any other tool but fdisk) behind the scenes. Before 
> I switch back to whatever tool the installer uses. I use their tools 
> mainly to create the mapping between real partitions and filesystems, 
> raids, or lvms.

It's nice to be able to go and force things the way you want, although I 
have to say Disk Druid is pretty slick. Still mostly an fdisk man myslf 
though.


> My strategy is to create a Rescue Linux on your master disk which owns 
> the MBR and to chainload everything else from there. All other Linuxi 
> (or BSD, or even Windows) store their own Grub/Lilo boot code in their 
> boot partition.
>
> Ed can attest to the efficacy of this method.

Yes, it's actually been pretty useful. Definitely a good idea.



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