Re: bad magic on boot attempt

[Thorsten Glaser <nirwana@ecce.homeip.net>]

begin  electrogrammati illius Ben Goren

>On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:29:51PM -0800, rob wrote:
>
>> Well, here  it is.  I think  I know the answer  already, I can't
>> have Openbsd / so far out on the disk.  So I think I am screwed.
>> Maybe I  could shrink Win2k  by 200M and  put / right  after it.
>> Here is the fdisk output:

Ack, for example PartitionMagic 7 does handle this very well (I
had problems with v5 even on FAT, and v3 knows about HPFS not
NTFS, no idea for other versions).
I have my / at the beginning of the HDD (althoufgh after your
nt partition is fully ok) and the rest at the very end, not
even having a partition (as opposed to disklabel) entry.

>Most Unices are  quite happy with /'s of ~100  Mbytes. Put small /
>partitions for  them at  the start  of the  drive, then  your evil
>nasty smelly  puking operating system  next, and then the  rest of
>your Unix partitions.

Then think of mount_mfs /tmp and have enough swap at the end...

Thorsten
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And yes, I do know how to handle it. Yes, I know about kill-
rules, too. So WTF do you still bother filling my syslog?