From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Richard "J." Rauenzahn Message-Id: <199902192128.NAA12844@hairball.cup.hp.com> Subject: Re: [hppa-linux] Partitioning proposal for boot loader To: hppa-linux@puffingroup.com Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:28:37 -0800 (PST) Cc: jason@equator.com In-Reply-To: <199902191929.NAA11346@equator.com> from Jason Eckhardt at Feb "19," 1999 "01:29:01" pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <"ww2c43.0.zY7.cXTps"@burrow.puffingroup.com> Reply-To: hppa-linux@puffingroup.com List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org > I propose that for the near-term, we use a simple PC-like partition scheme > for HPPA/Linux. In the future, once Linux is up and running, > we can work on co-existing with HP-UX on the same physical disk (see below > for more on this). This will keep the bootloader very small and simple, > and allow us to quickly move to working on the hard part, the actual kernel. My personal opinion is that they should go on seperate physical disks. If I install two versions of HPUX on a box, I use seperate disks. If you want to put them on the same disk, this means you can't use LVM under HPUX, or that Linux has to support HP's LVM. Rich ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe: send e-mail to hppa-linux-request@puffingroup.com with `unsubscribe' as the subject.