[ltp] Re: Rescue partition needed?

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 04:42:39PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > just an addition:
> > you do need about 1 or 2 mb of free (unpartitioned) space on the disk
> > for the BIOS to load.
> 
> Never heard of such a thing.  Were do you take it from?
> The BIOS works fine without any disk at all, so I'm wondering what you're
> referring to.

Same here, no need for a BIOS space on the drive.

> PS: With a 100MB /boot partition and the rest in LVM.

32 MB /boot partition and the rest (32 GB SSD) in reiser4+cryptcompress plugin. :-)